Item Summary

Translation of Marco Polo's travel account. Incomplete; lacking first leaf and several others throughout the text.

Descriptive Information

Title
[De consuetudinibus et conditionibus orientalium regionum] / [Marco Polo ; Latin translation by Francesco Pipino].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 157
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc7p88ct53r
Publisher
[England], [between 1425 and 1475]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1425-1475
Extent
53 leaves : parchment ; 260 x 185 (205-210 x 130-140) mm bound to 275 x 195 mm.
Provenance
Owned by John Bulkeley (15th century?); Lord Leonard Grey, Viscount Grane (ca. 1490-1541); Edward Clive (later Edward Herbert), 2nd Earl of Powis (1785–1848) passed by descent to Edward James Herbert Powis (1818–1891), 3rd Earl of Powis, sold in 1923 to the London bookseller Bernard Quaritch who sold the manuscript in 1929 to Robert Garrett (1875-1961). His gift to the Princeton University Library in 1942
Source Acquisition
Gift Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 366-368.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Incipit: “Qualiter et quare Dominus Nicholaus de Venetiis et Domina (sic) Marcus transierunt ad partes orientales. Capitulo primo. Tempore quo Balduinus princeps sceptra constantinopolitani imperii gubernabat. Anno C. ab incarnacione Domini millesimo CCliio ...
Explicit: “In mari illo Insule quedam sunt in quibus nascuntur et capiuntur gerfalci et herodii qui Inde postmodum ad diuersas prouincias et regiones deferuntur. Explicit liber Domini Marchi Pauli de Venetiis.”
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
List of missing leaves (fol. iir). List of chapters beginning with chapter 26 (fol. 1r). Manicules.
Collation: Parchment ; fols. ii (modern paper) + 53 + ii (modern paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 37 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; widespread use of red for underlining and highlighting letters.
Decoration: Chapters open with 2- to 3-line red initials. The final explicit in fere-Textualis script with calligraphic ascenders and every second word in red.
Binding Note
Later binding. England, early 19th century. Bound in London by Charles Lewis, active from 1786 to 1836. Brown calf over pasteboard, with gold tooling along the perimeter and turn-ins; marbled end papers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Polo, Marco 1254-1323?—Travel—Asia
Asia—Description and travel—Early works to 1800
Voyages and travels—Early works to 1800
Mongols—History—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Gold tooled bindings
Manicules

Physical Characteristics

File Count
120

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2707c3a7-292d-45bd-ad12-269f6306db8a/manifest