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(Gr. Iii.) " HIE HEBT sich an das fuch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers Marcho polo " : a transcript from the rare edition in German of the Travels of Marco Polo printed at Nuremberg in 1477, taken from a copy in the Imperial Library at Vienna and certified as exact by B. Kopitar, " Biblioth. Pa...
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Western Manuscripts
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English, French, and German
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1817
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1 item

22. Add MS 33756

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(Gr. li.) " MEMORIALE del viaggio di frate Oderiogo di Friuli ": an Italian version of the travels to Cathay, etc., circ. 1318- 1330, of the Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone, or Friuli, transcribed by the Cavaliere Alessandro di Mortara from an ancient copy in his own possession. Neither this tran...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Italian
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19th century
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(Gr. xxxix.) " CI COMENCE le liure qui parle des diuersites des pais ... compile fait et ordonne par Mesire Jehan Mandeuille, Cheualier, ne dangleterre de la uille con dit saint Albain ": the French version of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1322-1336. For a partial collation, see the Roxbur...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and French
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Late 14th century
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24. Add MS 33758

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(Gr. xl.) " THE, BOKE of Moundeuyle, kny t," or the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1322 (here 1300)-1336: the commoner mutilated English version, with the lacuna after the words, as here written (f. 11 ), " Roys yles " (see the Roxburghe Club edition, 1889, p. x.). Paper; ff. 50. xvth cent. Fol...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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15th century
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(Gr. xviii.) " ALBERICUS VESPUCIUS Laurentio Petri Francisci de Medicis " : copy of the letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo de' Mediei on his third voyage to America, in 1501. Latin. Paper; ff. 13 (those containing the text numbered at the foot from 85-95, as if they had formed part of a large...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
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1 item

26. Add MS 33761

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(Gr. vii.) " ANNUALL LETTERS written, out of Japonia [Japan] in the yeare of our Lorde 1625. 1626. 1627. to . . . Mutio Vitelleschi, Generall of the Society of Iesus." With a dedicatory letter from the translator, Thomas Somerset, 5th son of Henry Somerset, Earl of Worcester [succ. 1628, cr. Mar...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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c 1632-c 1642
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1 item

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(Gr. xvii.) " DESCRITTIONE del Mar Negro, e della Tartaria, par il Dottor Emidio Dortelli d'Ascoli, Lett: Dom: Prefetto del Caffa [sc. Kaffa, in the Crimea], Tartaria, &c., 1634." The Tartary described (f. 21 b) is not the " Gran Tartaria Asiatica," but "Tartaria Sarmata," sc. the Crimea. Pa...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Italian
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1634
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1 item

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(Gr. xxxiv.) "IDEA di una nuova Istoria Generale dell' America Settentrionale," etc. A translation in Italian by - Mac Egan, Colonel in the Neapolitan service, from the Spanish work, Idea de una nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional, of Lorenzo Boturini-Benaduci, Madrid, 1746. See T...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Italian
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1750
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(Gr. xxxiii.) AN ACCOUNT of Russia, 1767 ; "written by Sir Geo. Macartney, while ambassador in Russia." Published anonymously under the above title, London, 1768. The present copy is without the tables, and is otherwise less full than the printed text. It includes (f. 51) the account of "The pre...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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1767-1768
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(Gr. liv.) GEOGRAPHICAL COLLECTIONS Of Alexander Dalrymple, Hydrographer to the East India Company (1779) and to the Admiralty (1795-1808), viz.:- 1. Accounts of Mauritius, Bourbon, Madagascar, and Ascension, with a few charts and drawings. ff. 2, 13, 18, 20. Printed by Dalrymple in the Orient...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item