De navigatione
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2005406
Description
- Title
- De navigatione
- Creator
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468, creator
- Published / Created
- 1464.
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on paper of Benedetto Cotrugli (Benedictus de Cotrullis, c. 1410-1469), De navigatione liber (Della navigazione). After the prologue in Latin addressed to the Doge and the Senate of Venice, the author, quoting countless Biblical, ancient, medieval and Renaissance authors and drawing largely on his own experience, discusses the oceans and seas, islands, ports, the history of ship-building and navigation, weather, and astronomy. At the end, he includes portolano maps and describes the coast of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
- Description
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The author, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), was a businessman and humanist, from 1451 onwards in favour at the Court of Naples. His Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto, written in 1458, was for a long time considered his only surviving work. Our manuscript, written during his lifetime and no doubt under his supervision or by his hand, is the only existing manuscript of Della navigazione and it is unfinished, missing most of its illustrations and the end of the text.
In Italian.
Script: Written by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva close to Humanistica Textualis. Headings and opening words of chapters in pale red capitals.
Heightening of majuscules and paragraph marks in pale red up to f. 10r. Space for 2- or 3-line initials at the opening of all chapters, the initials not executed. Illustration largely missing; the few that have been executed are crudely drawn.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Yellowish parchment over cardboard. Marbled paste-downs. - Provenance
- Bequest of Henry C. Taylor, 1970.
- Extent
- ff. ii + 66 + i : 205 x 145 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 557
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Portolanos Italy 15th century
Portolan charts Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- text
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468.
- Subject (Topic)
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Astronomy, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Medieval
Navigation - Subjects
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Cotrugli, Benedetto, d. 1468
Astronomy, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian literature > 15th century
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Navigation > Early works to 1800
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Benedetto Cotrugli, De Navigatione. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9604211
- Object ID (OID)
- 2005406
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