Author: NORDENSKIÖLD, NILS ADOLF ERIK:
Title: Le livre de Marco Polo. Fac-simile d'un manuscrit du XIVe siècle conservé a la Bibliothèque Royale de Stockholm. Stockholm 1882.
Description: . 4to. Lvs (iv) including title and preface + lvs (98) with photolithographic text. Uncut, as issued (some leaves with outer edge darkened). Loose in binding. Original wrappers printed in red and black, spine ends chipped. Housed in a handsome specially made box. Limited edition of 200 copies. Provenance: Ericsberg castle, Sweden. This is a reproduction of a manuscript housed in the Royal Library of Stockholm about Marco Polo's travels. The original is written on vellum in the 14th century (about 1350). It was formerly in the library of Charles V and later acquired by Queen Christina who passed it on to the Royal Library in Sweden. In the introduction Nordenskiöld describes the manuscript at the Royal Library and that he asked the Director of the Library, K. Klemming, for permission to publish a photolithographic facsimile of the manuscript. He includes a letter from Leopold Delisle, Director of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Delisle had reviewed the manuscript during a recent visit to Stockholm and he claims that it is one of five Marco Polo manuscripts that had belonged to king Charles library at the Louvre. He refers to an unpublished letter, probably written in 1364, by a clerk, named Pierre Boyer. Further he writes that in 1411, the commissioners responsible for verifying the condition of the royal book collection at the Louvre found three copies of Marco Polo there. Delisle is sure that the copy in Stockholm is the last of the three copies. Marco Polo (1254-1324) became famous for his travels in Asia, especially his experiences in China. Upon the return to Venice in 1295, he was imprisoned in Genoa for a few years. During this time he dictated his adventures to Rusticiano of Pisa, a fellow prisoner. The text written in Franco-Italic and became known as Il Milione. The original manuscript has been lost but there are still many copies (versions) and translations into various languages of the Marco Polo travels. According to experts there are around 150 copies in existence today. Nordenskiöld, A Finnish-Swedish scientist, best known for being the first explorer to sail through the Northeast Passage on the Vega expedition in 1878-9. See Gaston Raynard, Romani 1882 (42-3) pp. 429-30. Includes a detailed description of various Polo manuscripts housed at different libraries, including the MS copy at Stockholm.
Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, travel, exploration, manuscript,
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Title: Le livre de Marco Polo. Fac-simile d'un manuscrit du XIVe siècle conservé a la Bibliothèque Royale de Stockholm. Stockholm 1882.
Description: . 4to. Lvs (iv) including title and preface + lvs (98) with photolithographic text. Uncut, as issued (some leaves with outer edge darkened). Loose in binding. Original wrappers printed in red and black, spine ends chipped. Housed in a handsome specially made box. Limited edition of 200 copies. Provenance: Ericsberg castle, Sweden. This is a reproduction of a manuscript housed in the Royal Library of Stockholm about Marco Polo's travels. The original is written on vellum in the 14th century (about 1350). It was formerly in the library of Charles V and later acquired by Queen Christina who passed it on to the Royal Library in Sweden. In the introduction Nordenskiöld describes the manuscript at the Royal Library and that he asked the Director of the Library, K. Klemming, for permission to publish a photolithographic facsimile of the manuscript. He includes a letter from Leopold Delisle, Director of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Delisle had reviewed the manuscript during a recent visit to Stockholm and he claims that it is one of five Marco Polo manuscripts that had belonged to king Charles library at the Louvre. He refers to an unpublished letter, probably written in 1364, by a clerk, named Pierre Boyer. Further he writes that in 1411, the commissioners responsible for verifying the condition of the royal book collection at the Louvre found three copies of Marco Polo there. Delisle is sure that the copy in Stockholm is the last of the three copies. Marco Polo (1254-1324) became famous for his travels in Asia, especially his experiences in China. Upon the return to Venice in 1295, he was imprisoned in Genoa for a few years. During this time he dictated his adventures to Rusticiano of Pisa, a fellow prisoner. The text written in Franco-Italic and became known as Il Milione. The original manuscript has been lost but there are still many copies (versions) and translations into various languages of the Marco Polo travels. According to experts there are around 150 copies in existence today. Nordenskiöld, A Finnish-Swedish scientist, best known for being the first explorer to sail through the Northeast Passage on the Vega expedition in 1878-9. See Gaston Raynard, Romani 1882 (42-3) pp. 429-30. Includes a detailed description of various Polo manuscripts housed at different libraries, including the MS copy at Stockholm.
Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, travel, exploration, manuscript,
Price: EUR 3000.00 = appr. US$ 3260.54 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 121178
- Book number: 121178
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