Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century

Title:

Ludouici patritii Romani nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem.

Alternate Title(s):

Lvdovici patritii Romani novvm itinerarivv Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utrivsqve Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem

Published / Created:

[Milan] : [Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler?, for Giovanni Giacomo da Legnano & fratelli], [1511]

Physical Description:

[8], LXII leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS7.V37 L83 1511
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

EDIT 16, CNCE 25316

Translated from the Italian by Arcangelo Madrignani, with dedicatory epistle by him dated: Mediolani octauo calen[das] Iunias .M.D. XI.

Copies are known in two states: with and without the woodcut publisher's device (Kristeller 81) of Giovanni Giacomo and Giovanni Antonio da Legnano on title page.

Imprint from BM STC Italian.

Probably printed by Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler. Cf. BM STC Italian, 1465-1600.

Signatures: 2A⁴ ²2A⁴ A-B⁴ C⁸ D⁶ E-G⁸ H⁶ I¹⁰.

Errors in foliation: XXXV-XXXVIII misnumbered XXXVI, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII respectively.

Poem by Lancinus Curtius on leaf ²A4r-v.

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, p. 73

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, V-292

BAC DS7.V37 L83 1511: Bound in later vellum. Contains woodcut publisher's device on title page.

Subject Terms:

Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800. | Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.

Form/Genre:

Woodcuts.

Contributors:

Madrignani, Arcangelo, -1520? translator. | Scinzenzeler, Giovanni Angelo, printer. no_linkage | Giovanni Giacomo da Legnano & fratelli, publisher.