Account of Alessandro Magno's journeys to Cyprus, Egypt, Spain, England, Flanders, Germany and Brescia [manuscript], 1557-1565.

[2], 246 leaves : ill. ; 20 x 15 cm

The author was a Venetian merchant and in this volume he describes in some detail with occasional illustrations: life on board ship, the places he visits, the topography, the customs of the people, their history, besides his own business, prices of merchandise, etc. The account of London includes a description of bear and horse baiting; that of Brescia a fiesta and its tournament.

In Italian.

The attribution of the authorship to Magno suggests itself from several references, e.g. one on leaf 81. See F.L. Lane's article in A.H.R., April 1940. "Raccolta dal ... Francesco Attar nobile Ciprio" suggests Attar as another, or possibly a part, author (leaf 58v).
Manuscript ends in the middle of a sentence.
Possibly a fair copy.
End papers made in Amalfi.
Typescript translation into English available in curatorial file.
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Voyage à Chypre, description de cette île et d'autres voyages jusquáu retour à Venise . . . / Alessandro Magno ; mémoire présenté en vue du diplôme de l'E.P.H.E. par Wilfred Naar, 1999 (D913 .M34 1999).
Voyages : 1557-1565 / Alessandro Magno ; traduction et notes de Wilfred Naar ; préface de Alberto Tenenti. Fasano : Schena ; Paris : Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.
Barron, Caroline, Christopher Coleman, and Claire Gobbi. "The London Journal of Alessandro Magno 1562." London journal 9 (2), 1983.

Abate Matteo Canonici collection (no. 137), sold to Walter Sneyd, 1835; Sneyd sale, London, Sotheby, 16 Dec. 1903, no. 682, to T. Ford.

Purchased by Henry Clay Folger from Thomas Thorp, November 1924.

Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1317.1

V.a.259

Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Folger.

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