New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 351

Journal of Magellan's Voyage Facsimile Edition

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The Journal of Magellan’s Voyage (Beinecke MS 351) is a richly illuminated early-sixteenth-century manuscript in French, attributed to Antonio Pigafetta, one of the few survivors of Ferdinand Magellan’s 1519–1522 circumnavigation. Comprised of 98 parchment folios, the volume features twenty-three full-page maps framed in gold, decorative initials in red, blue, and gold, and marginalia inscribed in a concise, humanistic hand. The text, divided into fifty-seven chapters, represents the most complete and finely produced of the four extant versions of Pigafetta’s narrative.

We have 2 facsimiles of the manuscript "Journal of Magellan's Voyage":

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#1 Magellan's Voyage. A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation by Antonio Pigafetta

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969

  • Commentary (English) by Skelton, R. A.
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Journal of Magellan's Voyage: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

This facsimile includes two volumes:

- Volume 1: An introduction and a translation by R.A. Skelton of the French MS. entitled "Navigation et descouurement de la Inde superieure et isles de Malucque ou naissent les cloux de girofle," held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University

- Volume 2: A colored facsimile of MS 351

 

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#2 Diario de Pigafetta y Portolano de Vespucci (Collection)

Valencia: Ediciones Grial, 1998

  • Limited Edition: 921 copies
  • Collection: a selection of documents associated by a common thread and collected by the publisher in a single edition.

This facsimile also includes a reproduction of Vespucci’s World Map of 1526 (New York, The Hispanic Society of America, K42).

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