BUONDELMONTI, Cristoforo (Florence c. 1385-not before 1430 probably Greece). Liber Insularum Archipelagi . ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, in Latin. [Italy, perhaps Florence, c. 1450].
BUONDELMONTI, Cristoforo (Florence c. 1385-not before 1430 probably Greece). Liber Insularum Archipelagi . ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, in Latin. [Italy, perhaps Florence, c. 1450]. 254 x 164mm. 66 leaves, COMPLETE, collation: a-f 1 0 g 1 0 (5-10 blank, 5 inserted before a1, 6 back pastedown, 7-10 cancelled), most signatures preserved, vertical catchwords, ruled to accommodate 27 lines (148 x 82mm), written in dark-brown ink in a fine upright humanistic bookhand, 5-line title-heading in red and seven short rubrics at the end. Finely drawn and illuminated floral border, incorporating the original owner's armorial device and initials, on a white-dotted blue ground and a double burnished gold frame surrounding the first page of text and illuminated initial C on a green ground. SEVENTY-NINE COLORED PEN-AND-INK AND WASH DRAWINGS OF MAPS, PLANS AND VIEWS OF THE AEGEAN, CYCLADIC AND IONIAN ISLANDS AND PORTS, including seven full-page. (A few tiny wormholes at beginning and end, removal of ownership stamp leaving a brown smudge in bottom margin of a1r, otherwise IN REMARKABLY CLEAN AND FRESH CONDITION.) BINDING: contemporary blind-tooled brown calf or goatskin over beech boards, probably Florentine, the covers decorated to identical designs, outer border formed by the repetition of a scroll tool, inner border of small crosses, saltire of triple fillets in center compartment, small 8-petalled flower tool scattered in other compartments, brass clasps and catches (straps renewed, vellum title-label removed from front cover, rebacked in the early 19th century, corners restored, minor worming). PROVENANCE: the original owner's initials IA AL in the lower border flank the arms azure a wing or pierced by an arrow or and argent , which no doubt allude to his name, perhaps Jacopo Ala or a variant of it; his identity, however, has remained elusive -- Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS. 2634, bought of Payne and Foss May 1827, item 519 in the supplement to their Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages -- William H. Robinson Ltd. of Pall Mall (bought in 1945 as part of the Bibliotheca Phillippica by private treaty) -- Boies Penrose, then of Devon, Pennsylvania, who bought it from the Robinson brothers in 1947 -- Sold to John Fleming in the mid-1970s, from whom it was acquired by the present owner. TEXT. The most important Renaissance illustrated travel book of the Eastern Mediterranean, treating in considerable detail the geography and history of the Greek Archipelago. The author, a member of a distinguished Florentine family, who was encouraged in his studies of Greek antiquity and literature by the maecenas, humanist and book collector, Niccolò Niccoli spent eight years in Rhodes and travelling around the Greek islands from 1414 onwards, acquiring Greek manuscripts for Niccoli, to whom he dedicated his first work, a description of Crete. Between 1420 and 1422 he produced several redactions of his greatest work, Liber Insularum Archipelagi , dedicating them from Rhodes to his Roman patron, Cardinal Giordano Orsini (d. 1439). The progenitor of the genre of island books, it circulated in a considerable number of manuscripts in the 15th and 16th century, but the text was not fully published until 1824 by G.R.L. de Sinner in Leipzig and Berlin. It was also translated from the original Latin into Greek, Italian and English, and clearly influenced Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti's Isolario, published in Venice c. 1485 (IGI 1278; see following lot), Benedetto Bordoni's Isolario, published in Venice (1528), and Piri Re'is's treatise on navigation in the Ottoman Mediterranean, composed in 1521-26, Kitab-I bahriye. More than 65 manuscripts are presently recorded, but no more than four or five in private hands, including a paper copy of 1473 (sold to Kraus in 1979), another paper manuscript of c. 1500 (sold at Sotheby's in 1996), a 16th-century French vellum manuscript (sold in 2004) and another, much later Phillipps manuscript (sold at Sotheby's in 1973). The P
BUONDELMONTI, Cristoforo (Florence c. 1385-not before 1430 probably Greece). Liber Insularum Archipelagi . ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, in Latin. [Italy, perhaps Florence, c. 1450].
BUONDELMONTI, Cristoforo (Florence c. 1385-not before 1430 probably Greece). Liber Insularum Archipelagi . ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, in Latin. [Italy, perhaps Florence, c. 1450]. 254 x 164mm. 66 leaves, COMPLETE, collation: a-f 1 0 g 1 0 (5-10 blank, 5 inserted before a1, 6 back pastedown, 7-10 cancelled), most signatures preserved, vertical catchwords, ruled to accommodate 27 lines (148 x 82mm), written in dark-brown ink in a fine upright humanistic bookhand, 5-line title-heading in red and seven short rubrics at the end. Finely drawn and illuminated floral border, incorporating the original owner's armorial device and initials, on a white-dotted blue ground and a double burnished gold frame surrounding the first page of text and illuminated initial C on a green ground. SEVENTY-NINE COLORED PEN-AND-INK AND WASH DRAWINGS OF MAPS, PLANS AND VIEWS OF THE AEGEAN, CYCLADIC AND IONIAN ISLANDS AND PORTS, including seven full-page. (A few tiny wormholes at beginning and end, removal of ownership stamp leaving a brown smudge in bottom margin of a1r, otherwise IN REMARKABLY CLEAN AND FRESH CONDITION.) BINDING: contemporary blind-tooled brown calf or goatskin over beech boards, probably Florentine, the covers decorated to identical designs, outer border formed by the repetition of a scroll tool, inner border of small crosses, saltire of triple fillets in center compartment, small 8-petalled flower tool scattered in other compartments, brass clasps and catches (straps renewed, vellum title-label removed from front cover, rebacked in the early 19th century, corners restored, minor worming). PROVENANCE: the original owner's initials IA AL in the lower border flank the arms azure a wing or pierced by an arrow or and argent , which no doubt allude to his name, perhaps Jacopo Ala or a variant of it; his identity, however, has remained elusive -- Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS. 2634, bought of Payne and Foss May 1827, item 519 in the supplement to their Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages -- William H. Robinson Ltd. of Pall Mall (bought in 1945 as part of the Bibliotheca Phillippica by private treaty) -- Boies Penrose, then of Devon, Pennsylvania, who bought it from the Robinson brothers in 1947 -- Sold to John Fleming in the mid-1970s, from whom it was acquired by the present owner. TEXT. The most important Renaissance illustrated travel book of the Eastern Mediterranean, treating in considerable detail the geography and history of the Greek Archipelago. The author, a member of a distinguished Florentine family, who was encouraged in his studies of Greek antiquity and literature by the maecenas, humanist and book collector, Niccolò Niccoli spent eight years in Rhodes and travelling around the Greek islands from 1414 onwards, acquiring Greek manuscripts for Niccoli, to whom he dedicated his first work, a description of Crete. Between 1420 and 1422 he produced several redactions of his greatest work, Liber Insularum Archipelagi , dedicating them from Rhodes to his Roman patron, Cardinal Giordano Orsini (d. 1439). The progenitor of the genre of island books, it circulated in a considerable number of manuscripts in the 15th and 16th century, but the text was not fully published until 1824 by G.R.L. de Sinner in Leipzig and Berlin. It was also translated from the original Latin into Greek, Italian and English, and clearly influenced Bartolommeo dalli Sonetti's Isolario, published in Venice c. 1485 (IGI 1278; see following lot), Benedetto Bordoni's Isolario, published in Venice (1528), and Piri Re'is's treatise on navigation in the Ottoman Mediterranean, composed in 1521-26, Kitab-I bahriye. More than 65 manuscripts are presently recorded, but no more than four or five in private hands, including a paper copy of 1473 (sold to Kraus in 1979), another paper manuscript of c. 1500 (sold at Sotheby's in 1996), a 16th-century French vellum manuscript (sold in 2004) and another, much later Phillipps manuscript (sold at Sotheby's in 1973). The P
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