Accession number:
MS M.555
Title:
Viaggio alli paesi del continente nuovo
Created:
Venice, Italy, between 1675 and 1699.
Binding:
Original 17th-century dark red morocco; repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in the 20th century.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description:
33 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : paper ; 220 x 155 mm
Provenance:
Bookplate on front pastedown: HS within ornamental vegetal frame; note pasted above the bookplate apparently in the hand of Count Camillo Soranzo (1826-1902) describing the manuscript; on front flyleaf recto in black ink, upper right: n. R. degli Oddz (?); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ferdinando Ongania in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. travel account; written in Venice, Italy, in the last quarter of the 17th century.
A narrative of travel to Florida and the Atlantic seaboard with fantastic and dubious information; likely composed from secondary sources--Cf. Bühler.
Script:
cursive script
Language:
Italian
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