Add MS 33566

" RELATIONE del Viaggio di Gerusalemme ": account by Vincenzo Favi of a pilgrimage from Venice to Jerusalem in 1615, going by way of the Mediterranean and Egypt and returning through Damascus, Aleppo, and Alexandretta; with a dedicatory letter to Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy. At the end are:-

Corso e valuta delle monete." f. 148;-and an Index. f. 151. Illustrated with a map of the route (f. 6), and numerous plans and sketches, in pen and ink, of buildings, etc., many bearing the name of the artist, "Gio:Cales"or"de Kales." Among them are: -Equestrian exercise with the Jerred at Cairo, f. 20b ;-Bird's-eye view of Cairo, f. 22; -Bird's-eye view of the Holy Places in and about Jerusalem, f. 53;-Houses of Annas and Caiaphas, ff. 62, 64;-The Via Dolorosa, f. 68 ;-Chapel of the Ascension, f. 72 ;-Plan of the Sepulchre of the Virgin, f. 75;-Plan, etc., of the Holy Sepulchre, ff. 81, 84, 85, 87;-Chapels on Mount Calvary, f. 90;-Tombs of Godfrey de Bouillon and Baldwin, f. 96;-The gate of Jaffa and the western wall, f. 107;-Tomb of Rachel, f. ll0;-Plan of the Church of the Nativity, ff. 112, 115;-Pools of Solomon, f. 120;-

Church of the Nativity of St. John Baptist, f. 125. At the beginning (ff. 1, 2) is inserted a coloured plan of the town and harbour of " Cartagena de Yndias," in S. America, by " Don Juan de Herrera Sotoniayor, Ingeniero militar de dicha plaza," etc., 17th-18th cent. Paper; ff. 158. With a painted frontispiece, " Gio Cales f[ecit]," displaying the arms of the Duke of Savoy (see above). Quarto.