BRASCA, Santo (1444/45-1522). Itinerario alla santissima città di Gerusalemme. - Memoria degli castelli e terre grosso che sono sopra il Po . Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, for Ambrosio Archinto, 25 February 1481. Chancery 4° (188 x 136 mm). Collation: a-f 8 g 10 h 4 χ 2 (a1r author's dedication prologue to Antonius Landrianus, a1v text, g10v woodcut of the Temple in Jerusalem, h3v colophon, h4 blank, χ1r blank, χ1v Memoria de le castelli e terre grosse che sono sopra po da pavia per insino a venetia , χ2r-v Memoria de li fiumi che intrano in po da pavia a venetia. Et dove intrano ). 61 leaves (of 64, without h1-3; blank h4 and the two unsigned leaves bound in at front). 32 lines. Type 5:86G A . 2-line Lombard initials, initial space on a1. (Dampstaining, single wormhole through text block, enlarged to a track in quires b and c.) 19th-century quarter morocco. Provenance : contemporary marginalia on f1r signalling prayers to St. Mary Magdalen and St. Lazarus, and on g6r to St. Catherine; "J. B. Seccius(?)", 18th-century ownership inscription at front of a jurisconsult of Milan; Lorenzo Galeazzo Trotti-Bentivoglio, bookplate. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED ACCOUNTS OF A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND, CONTAINING DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF VENICE AND OTHER ITALIAN CITIES. Santo Brasca, an official of the Milanese chancellery, embarked on a pilgrimage to Palestine in the spring of 1480. Immediately upon his return Brasca wrote and had printed a day-by-day journal of the voyage, explaining in his preface that he desired to share with those who are unable to travel his experiences of the holy churches and sites, and especially "all of the devotions, prayers and indulgences practiced along the way and heard in processions." To this he added instructions and advice for any readers who planned to undertake a similar pilgrimage. The first part of the work contains a detailed description of the various towns visited on the journey from Milan, the author's home, to Venice, where embarkation was delayed for a month due to the ship's unpreparedness, permitting a detailed visit and consequent description of the city and all its "corpi santi" and relics, painstakingly enumerated. The two additional unsigned leaves, not present in a few copies but described by Reichling and GW, contain a list of the lands and castles along the Po river between Pavia and Venice, and a list of the Po's tributaries. Travel accounts, especially of Eastern voyages, became a popular genre in Venetian literature during the quattrocento , catering to the needs of merchants as well as the growing numbers of patrician pilgrim/tourists, but most of these accounts continued to circulate in manuscript until the seventeenth century. The present edition, much praised by Rothschild and others for the authenticity and unedited freshness of its narration, was one of the earliest (preceded notably by Capodilista's Itinerario , Perugia, ca. 1475). It was reprinted in 1497, and again in the 16th and 19th centuries. Two other somewhat less detailed accounts of the voyage, by Brasca's fellow pilgrims, Felix Fabri and an anonymous Frenchman, were published in the 19th century. RARE. HCR 3763; BMC VI, 749 (IA. 26460, IA. 26460a); GW 5073; IGI 2052; Klebs 219.1; Rothschild 2634; Sander 1261; Goff B-1101 (3 copies only).
BRASCA, Santo (1444/45-1522). Itinerario alla santissima città di Gerusalemme. - Memoria degli castelli e terre grosso che sono sopra il Po . Milan: Leonardus Pachel and Uldericus Scinzenzeler, for Ambrosio Archinto, 25 February 1481. Chancery 4° (188 x 136 mm). Collation: a-f 8 g 10 h 4 χ 2 (a1r author's dedication prologue to Antonius Landrianus, a1v text, g10v woodcut of the Temple in Jerusalem, h3v colophon, h4 blank, χ1r blank, χ1v Memoria de le castelli e terre grosse che sono sopra po da pavia per insino a venetia , χ2r-v Memoria de li fiumi che intrano in po da pavia a venetia. Et dove intrano ). 61 leaves (of 64, without h1-3; blank h4 and the two unsigned leaves bound in at front). 32 lines. Type 5:86G A . 2-line Lombard initials, initial space on a1. (Dampstaining, single wormhole through text block, enlarged to a track in quires b and c.) 19th-century quarter morocco. Provenance : contemporary marginalia on f1r signalling prayers to St. Mary Magdalen and St. Lazarus, and on g6r to St. Catherine; "J. B. Seccius(?)", 18th-century ownership inscription at front of a jurisconsult of Milan; Lorenzo Galeazzo Trotti-Bentivoglio, bookplate. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED ACCOUNTS OF A PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND, CONTAINING DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF VENICE AND OTHER ITALIAN CITIES. Santo Brasca, an official of the Milanese chancellery, embarked on a pilgrimage to Palestine in the spring of 1480. Immediately upon his return Brasca wrote and had printed a day-by-day journal of the voyage, explaining in his preface that he desired to share with those who are unable to travel his experiences of the holy churches and sites, and especially "all of the devotions, prayers and indulgences practiced along the way and heard in processions." To this he added instructions and advice for any readers who planned to undertake a similar pilgrimage. The first part of the work contains a detailed description of the various towns visited on the journey from Milan, the author's home, to Venice, where embarkation was delayed for a month due to the ship's unpreparedness, permitting a detailed visit and consequent description of the city and all its "corpi santi" and relics, painstakingly enumerated. The two additional unsigned leaves, not present in a few copies but described by Reichling and GW, contain a list of the lands and castles along the Po river between Pavia and Venice, and a list of the Po's tributaries. Travel accounts, especially of Eastern voyages, became a popular genre in Venetian literature during the quattrocento , catering to the needs of merchants as well as the growing numbers of patrician pilgrim/tourists, but most of these accounts continued to circulate in manuscript until the seventeenth century. The present edition, much praised by Rothschild and others for the authenticity and unedited freshness of its narration, was one of the earliest (preceded notably by Capodilista's Itinerario , Perugia, ca. 1475). It was reprinted in 1497, and again in the 16th and 19th centuries. Two other somewhat less detailed accounts of the voyage, by Brasca's fellow pilgrims, Felix Fabri and an anonymous Frenchman, were published in the 19th century. RARE. HCR 3763; BMC VI, 749 (IA. 26460, IA. 26460a); GW 5073; IGI 2052; Klebs 219.1; Rothschild 2634; Sander 1261; Goff B-1101 (3 copies only).
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