Tractatus Insularii Archipelagi
Tractatus Insularii Archipelagi. 76 leaves; paper in a limp vellum binding.
Cristoforo Buondelmonte was from a distinguished Florentine family, who travelled extensively in the Greek archipelago during his life. The volume is dedicated to Cardinal Giardano Orsini, evident from a rubricated acrostic from the beginning of each chapter. There is another copy of Buondelmonte's work at P/13, with both maps and text in a much neater hand.
Cristoforo Buondelmonte was from a distinguished Florentine family, who travelled extensively in the Greek archipelago during his life. The volume is dedicated to Cardinal Giardano Orsini, evident from a rubricated acrostic from the beginning of each chapter. There is another copy of Buondelmonte's work at P/13, with both maps and text in a much neater hand.
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