MS. Add. C. 252

Summary Catalogue no.: 29437

'John Mandeville', Travels (Italian translation)

Colophon: (fol. 83) ...Antonio delgayo do la cuntra de Sam quilicho Scripsi de lano de 1442. del messe de zenaro e finito a vltimo de febraro del Millesimo suprascritto.

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Dimensions (written): 295 × 205 mm.

Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 115 mm.

Layout

1 col., 37 lines.

Decoration

Penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. List p. 105)

Coloured initial

Rubrics.

History

Origin: 1442 ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Isaac de Costa, 1798–1860: bought at his sale, Sotheby's, 11 August 1884, lot 376, for £13.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, Pächt and Alexander, and the Summary Catalogue (1905).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 622

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 623

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 24

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), p. 105

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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