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Add MS 8647

Record Id:
032-002029528
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029528
MDARK:
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8647
Title:

COSTANTINO GARZONI: Relazione of Constantinople; 1574. Italian. Copy, 1592. Costantino Garzoni was a member of the Venetian Senate, who accompanied the ambassador Andrea Badoer and the new bailo Antonio Tiepolo to Constantinople. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Commentari delle cose di Costantinopoli, et descrittione delle entrate, forze, et Corte del Imperatore de Turchi del Serenissimo Signor Costantino Garzoni dell'anno 1573'. The date 1573 more veneto corresponds to the year 1574. The relazione is divided into two sections: (a) negotiations (ff. 2-25v) of Venice with the Turks after the treaty of peace stipulated on 7 March 1573, inc. 'Conclusa la pace col Signor Turco, et publicatala nell'Illustrissimo Consiglio di Pregadi l'anno 1573. li 4 d'April[...]', expl. 'la partita Nostra fu differita per li 27. di Febraro ... 43 giornate fino a Corfù patendo incommodi notabilissimi d'ogni sorte'; - (b) detailed account (ff. 26-105v) of the town of Constantinople and the Ottoman court, the costumes of the Turks, their military forces and economy, inc. 'Dirò hora del sito della Città di Costantinopoli', expl. 'che sia certo non potersi in alcun tempo unire à suoi danni'. Other copies of the text in Add. 10212 and 16543, ff. 3-61v. Published in Albèri, s. iii, v. i (Florence, 1840), pp. 369-436. Ownership note (f. 106) 'Jesus Maria / 1592. adi. 26. Maggio In Venezia / Di Zuanne Thiepolo'. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/20/D' (front pastedown). '174' in pencil in upper left corner of armorial bookplate. Purchased, together with Add. 8644, 8648, 8650, and 8655, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 174 (part).

Paper; ff. 106+ii. Old pagination in ink 3-211 (ff. 2-106). 199 x 146mm. One Italian hand. Erratic horizontal catchwords. Late 16th-cent. binding of vellum with pastedowns and contiguous flyleaves of decorated paper; blue edges.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with decorated paper pastedowns and contiguous flyleaves: 1574.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/20/D): bef. 1828.

City of Constantinople: Venice: Geography: Costantino Garzoni, of Venice; senator 1573: Selim II; Sultan of Turkey: Relazione of Constantinople by Costantino Garzoni: 1574: Ital: Copy.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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032-002029528
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1592
End Date:
1592
Date Range:
1592
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 174, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Giovanni Tiepolo, of Venice: Owned in 1592.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Garzoni, Costantino, of Venice, politician and diplomat, 1547-1629
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Selim II, of Turkey
Tiepolo, Giovanni, of Venice
Places:
Constantinople, Europe/Asia
Venice, Italy