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• Author/Creator:Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534.
  
• Title:Journal of Magellan's Voyage.
  
• Published/Created:France, [ca. 1525]
  
• Physical Description:ff. i + ii + i + 98 + ii + i : parchment ; 276 x 184 (195 x 122) mm.
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Beinecke MS 351
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Script: Written in elegant humanistic bookhand with script often resting above the rulings; marginal notes and headings in a more cursive script that inclines toward the right.
  Twenty-three beautifully drawn and illuminated maps, mostly full-page, surrounded by gold frames, and with scrolls superimposed that contain the identifying legends for islands and land masses. Decorative initials, 4- to 3-line, rose or blue highlighted with white, on gold rectangular grounds edged in black, contain flowers in contrasting colors or strawberries and green and chartreuse leaves. Gold initials, 2-line, on red rectangular grounds or on red and blue grounds (divided diagonally or horizontally) with gold highlights. Gold paragraph marks, 1-line, on rectangular grounds that alternate red and blue, with gold highlights; rectangular line-fillers in red and gold, also highlighted with gold. Headings for chapters and titles for maps within text, as well as notes in margin entered by same scribe, in red or blue.
  Binding: Nineteenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled. Bound by Duru in 1851. Disbound and mounted for photographic reproduction for the facsimile edition by Harold Tribolet at the Extra Bindery of the Lakeside Press. Rebacked with extraordinary skill.
  In French.
  Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 16405). Purchased in 1964 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
  Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
  
• Access and use:Restricted material. May not be seen without the permission of the appropriate curator.
• Summary:Manuscript on parchment (fine) of A journal of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world in 1522, written by Antonio Pigafetta (ca. 1480/91 - ca. 1534), an Italian gentleman from Vincenza who survived the trip. Beinecke MS 351, the text of which is divided into 57 numbered chapters, is the most complete and most handsomely produced manuscript of the four surviving witnesses to the text; the original, probably in Italian, is now lost.
  
• Publications:J. A. Robertson, Magellan's Voyage around the World (Cleveland, 1906) v. 2, pp. 260-64. T. E. Marston, "Around the World in 1080 Days," Gazette 39 (1965) pp. 101-04. R. A. Skelton, Magellan's Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation by Antonio Pigafetta (New Haven, 1969) v. 1: Introduction and translation of text, v. 2: facsimile, in color, of Beinecke MS 351.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• References:Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 351.
  
• Cite as:Pigafetta, Journal of Magellan's Voyage. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521.
  Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534.
  Discoveries in geography--Portuguese.
  Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
  Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
  Early maps.
  Voyages around the world.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
  
• Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Renaissance--France--16th century.