Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Giovanni, da Pian del Carpine, Archbishop of Antivari, -1252

Title:

Opera diletteuole da intendere, nella qual si contiene doi itinerarij in Tartaria : per alcuni frati dell'Ordine Minore, è di S. Dominico, mandati da Papa Innocentio IIII, nella detta prouincia de Scithia per ambasciatori, non più uulgarizata.

Alternate Title(s):

Opera dilettevole da intendere nella qual si contiene doi itinerarij in Tartaria

Published / Created:

Stampata in Vinegia : Per Giouan'Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, Ne l'anno del Signore, MDXXXVII Adi 17 Ottobrio [1537].

Physical Description:

[112] pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DS327.7 .O64 1537
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

Title page is illustrated with woodcut portrait of a Tartar warrior.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-O⁴.

Last page blank.

Includes accounts of the 13th century Franciscan and Dominican expeditions to Tartary, the former by Giovanni di Piano Carpini, the latter by Simon de St. Quentin.--See Streit.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, IV, 416.

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), II, 894.

EDIT 16, CNCE 32039

BAC DS327.7.O64 1537: Bound in black morocco. With manuscript annotations on title page.

Subject Terms:

Asia, Central -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. | Tatars -- Early works to 1800. | Lada-Mocarski, Valerian, 1898–1971 -- Bookplate. | Lada-Mocarski, Laura K. (Laura Klots), 1902–1997 -- Bookplate.

Form/Genre:

Woodcuts. | Travel writing.

Contributors:

Simon de Saint-Quentin, active 1245–1248, author. | Nicolini da Sabbio, Giovanni Antonio, printer, publisher.