Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Arte del navigare.
Call Number
Kane MS. 54
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcd504s1136
Publisher
[Italy] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1580]
Language
Italian
Date Created
1580
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 volume (i, 69, i leaves) : parchment, illustrations ; 19 cm
Provenance
Kane MS. 54 contains an anonymous treatise written for publication in the second half of the 16th century (perhaps around the year 1580, as indicated in the spine title), but probably not published. The manuscript was submitted in Rome to two ecclesiastical censors, whose imprimaturs are found at the bottom of fol. 69r: (1) “Imprimatur si placet R[everendissimo] P[atri] Magistro S. Palatii B[asilicae] Vicesger[enti]”; and (2) “imprimatur fr. paulus de francisco de Neapoli, lector et socius Domini patris magistri Sacri Palatii Apostolici.” Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y., acquired the manuscript in 1926, according to his note on fol. i recto. Kane's bookplate is on the front pastedown and his dated pencil note of acquisition on fol. i recto. The Kane Collection was acquired by the Princeton University Library from Kane's heirs in February 1946.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 120-121.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
An anonymous three-part Italian navigational treatise, which has been misattributed to Agostino Cesareo, whose treatise L'arte de navigare (1570) is a different text . The text of Kane MS. 54 was probably influenced by the widely circulated Renaissance seven-book treatise on navigation by Pedro de Medina (1493?-1567?), which served as a navigational manual for ships sailing to the New World.
Script: Humanistica currens.
Decoration: Volvelles tinted in blue and ochre on fols. 2r, 11r, 14r, and 57r.
Binding Note
Italy, 17th century (?). The textblock is sewn on linen tape laced into a stiffened parchment wrapper with yapps. Spine title (handwritten in black ink): “Arte del navigare. MSS. ca. 1580.”

Discovery Information

Subject
Navigation—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Italian—Italy
Manuscripts, Italian—New Jersey—Princeton
Illumination of books and manuscripts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
145

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b879d0ff-b7bc-4fe6-aaf3-f82a7ecd2e45/manifest