Plimpton MS 093, Travels pdf

Plimpton MS 093, Travels

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New York, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Plimpton MS 093. Text(s): Travels. Description: ff. ii + i + 42 + ii – In red morocco, gilt ruled on edges; 5 raised bands on spine, stamped in gold in 2nd, 3rd, and 6th compartments; s. XX#^in#. – Benedictine monastery of St. Sebastian in Ebersberg (ownership note on f. 2 of the UCLA portion of the book; see below). By 1494, the manuscript had left Ebersberg, having been exchanged (according to another note on f. 2) for the price of a “better” book. Orthography of this second note suggests that it was at this point at which the book passed into Spanish ownership; the contents list, s. XVII, on f. 1r-v of the UCLA portion is in Spanish. By 1677, in the collection of Don Pedro Nuñez de Guzman, Marqués de Montealegre; his library acquired by the historian Luis de Salazar y Castro (1658-1734), who in turn bequeathed his immense number of books to the Benedictine monastery of Our Lady of Montserrat in Madrid.

At the dissolution of the monasteries, the books were moved from location to location, until arriving at the present home of the bulk of the collection, the Reál Academia de la Historia, in 1850. The modern catalogue of the collection (A. de Vargas-Zúñiga y Montero de Espinosa, Marqués de Siete Iglesias and B. Cuartero y Huerta,Indice de la Colección de Don Luis de Salazar y Castro, Madrid 1949-79, 27:349-351, as L-19) notes that during a shelf-reading done in 1928 only the parchment binding of the manuscript was found. The Marco Polo portion of the manuscript, in its present red morocco binding, was sold by Maggs in 1929 to George A. Plimpton; at his death in July 1936 the manuscript was bequeathed to Columbia University. The UCLA portion was acquired from Lawrence Witten in 1983 in honor of Lynn White, Jr. – De Ricci, p. 1768. This manuscript not cited in: Marco Polo, Il milione, prima edizione integrale, ed.

by Luigi Foscolo Benedetto (Florence, L. S. Olschki, 1928), but it is the version discussed by Benedetto on pp. cxix-cxxiv. Marco Polo, The description of the world, translated and annotated by A.C. Moule and Paul Pelliot (London, G. Routledge, 1938) n. 53 as LA6. Consuelo Wager Dutschke, “Francesco Pipino and the manuscripts of Marco Polo’s ‘Travels’,” Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA 1993. Part 1: ff. 1-42v. Description: – Paper – Ochsenkopfsimilar to Piccard XIII:621 or XIII:622. – 198 x 150 mm – 28-30 long lines frame ruled in ink

• Creator/s: Marco Polo
• Date: 1450 – 1499

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