• [De consuetudinibus et conditionibus orientalium regionum] / [Marco Polo ; Latin translation by Francesco Pipino].

Extent:
  • 53 leaves : parchment ; 260 x 185 (205-210 x 130-140) mm bound to 275 x 195 mm.
Date:
  • 1425-1475
Language:
Author:
  • Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
Translator:
  • Pipino, Francesco, active 13th century-14th century
Abstract:
  • Translation of Marco Polo's travel account. Incomplete; lacking first leaf and several others throughout the text.
Description:
  • 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:
  • 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.
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.
Former owner:
  • Bulkeley, John, active 15th century
  • Grane, Leonard Grey, Viscount, -1541
  • Powis, Edward Herbert, Earl of, 1785-1848
  • Powis, Edward James Herbert, Earl of, 1818-1891
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 157
References:
  • Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 366-368.
Alternative:
  • Marcus Paulus de Veneciis, codex ms. in membranis
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Binder:
  • Lewis, Charles, 1786-1836