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The Annual of the British School at Athens http://journals.cambridge.org/ATH Additional services for The Annual of the British School at Athens: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Notes on Manuscripts in the British Museum relating to Levant Geography and Travel F. W. Hasluck The Annual of the British School at Athens / Volume 12 / November 1906, pp 196 - 215 DOI: 10.1017/S006824540000808X, Published online: 18 October 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S006824540000808X How to cite this article: F. W. Hasluck (1906). Notes on Manuscripts in the British Museum relating to Levant Geography and Travel. The Annual of the British School at Athens, 12, pp 196-215 doi:10.1017/S006824540000808X Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/ATH, IP address: 128.122.253.228 on 12 Apr 2015 NOTES ON MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM RELATING TO LEVANT GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. (PLATE I.) A not unprofitable search among the manuscripts of the British Museum for travellers' accounts of Cyzious and its neighbourhood, has persuaded me that an annotated list of those manuscripts which deal with Levantine geography may be a useful contribution to the bibliography of travel. It is needless to say that this paper has no palaeographical pre- tensions ; such points as the dates of handwriting have been for the most part supplied me by Mr. J. A. Herbert, to whom I am also indebted for much other assistance. The MSS. I have examined fall generally into one of three rough classes :— (1) Isolarii and accounts of individual Aegean islands. (2) Voyages and travels to Constantinople. (3) Travels in Asia Minor. Except in a few cases where I have stumbled upon discoveries worth noting, I have confined myself to MSS. of geographical and archaeological interest. The long series of official papers relating to the Ionian Islands and the Venetian despatches have therefore been ignored. Neither have I dealt with Palestine Pilgrims, as having their own bibliographers, nor with LEVANTINE GEOGRAPHY. 197 the Portolani, which, so far as they concern the Mediterranean, have been described by Admiral W. H. Smyth.1 I.—ISOLARII, ETC. These, owing to the large number of printed works on the subject,2 do not add much to the sum of our knowledge ; their chief interest is cartographical, and no attempt to deal with them adequately can be made without copious illustrations. They are not written as personal accounts of travel but rather as seamen's guides compiled from a common stock of knowledge. The list is headed by the MSS. of Buondelmonti's ' Liber Insularum.' Seeing that this treatise has been twice published,3 the MSS. need no more than a brief notice here. They are : (a) Vespasian A. XIII. ff. 1-41, quarto, vellum. Incipit liber insularum Arcipelagi editus per presbiterum Christo- phorum de bondelmontibus de Florencia quern misit de Ciuitate rhodi rontam domino Jordano cardinali de Vrsinis Anno domini m ccc\c\ xx\ij\ This is noticed by de Sinner, p. 27, as ' male annum 1320 prae se ferens.' One c and ii have been erased from the date in title. The MS. is apparently damaged by damp; its maps seem to 1 The Mediterranean, 1854, pp. 329 ff. Later additions to the series are, however, numerous, viz. : Add. 18,454 (1463), 31,315 (1469). 3l>3«8 A. (1470) ; Eg. 2,855 (i473)> 2>7'2 (xv cent.); Add. 9,810 (1502) ; Eg. 2,803 (i5°8)> 2>857 (152°); Add- '9,927 (1536). 27,47i (1537). 22,348 (1538); Eg. 2,854(1540); Add. 21,029 (1559); Eg. 2,856 (1562), 2,860 (1562), 2,858 (1570); Add. 31,317 (1573?) ; Add. 9,813 (c. 1600), 9,814, 21,592, 31,316 (xvi cent.) ; Eg. 2,861 (1623); Add. 31,319 (1629), 19,916 (1640), 22,618 (1642), 11,765 (1644), 19,976 (1650). 2 Buondelmonti (1420); Bartolommeo da li Sonetti [1485]; Bordone, 1548; Porcacchi, 1575 [G. Rosaccio (Viaggio da Venetia a Cos'poli), 1598]; Boschini, 1658; Coronelli, c. 1685; Randolph, 1687; Piacenza, 1688; Dapper, 1688. A Turkish Isolario of 1520 is noticed by R. Herzog in Athen. Mitt, xxvii. 417-430, PI. XV. 3 L. de Sinner, Lipsiae, 1827, with reproductions of two maps. E. Legrand, Paris, 1897 (Vol. i., containing the Greek text of the Seraglio MS. with a French translation, and reproductions of sixteen of the maps : the promised commentary has not been published). To the bibliography of Buondelmonti given in L. Biirchner's review of Legrand's edition (Byz. Zeitschr. x. 1901, 230^ add the recent articles of O. Rubensohn (Athen. Mitt. 1900, 343 ff. and PI. V. Paros) and E. Jacobs (Neues von Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Jahrb. des Inst. xx. 39-45, Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Beitrdge zur Biicherkunde und Philologie A. Wilmanns gewidmet (1903) 312-340). 198 F. W. HASLUCK resemble closely those of the Paris MS., from which de Sinner printed, retaining the colours prescribed in the author's preface. (6) Arundel 93, ^\ 129-160, folio, vellum. [Title lacking.] The latest date is given by the colophon : ' Hoc volumen com- paravit Raphael de Marcotellis Episcopus Rosensis, etc. anno domini 1485.' The maps are elaborately executed in many colours and in a picturesque style, but much less is marked on them than in other MSS. In the Constantinople map (f. 155) (PI. I. Fig. 2), how- ever, at the south-west corner of the city is marked very plainly lportus seddestrnctusprecepto Teucrorum,' and a mole is shewn jutting from the west side of the moat. This mole is shewn also in (a), where an inscription seems to have been erased. The harbour is Van Millingen's ' Portus Aureae Portae,' whose existence is doubted by Pears,1 against the authority of Ducas.2 In the Thera map is the legend Hec pars submersit et non reperitur fumdum (sic) between Thera and Therasia. (c) Sloane 3843, ff. 62, small folio, paper. Liber Insularum Archipelagi Christophoride Bondelmontib. cuius autographum extat in bibliotheca Thuana Lutetiae: hoc autem exemplar propria manu descripsit Iacobus Palmerius a Grentemesnil Nobilis Cadomensis Anno Dni Dionysiano 1642. Maps drawn in ink without colour. Paulmier de Grentemesnil is mentioned by de Sinner3 as one of those who made use of Buondelmonti. id) Titus B. VIII. ff. 245-8, folio, paper. The booke of the Hands of the Archipelago written by Chris- topher Bondelmont of Florence Priest and sent by him from Rhodes to 'Rome, to Cardinall Jordan de Vrsinis A0 Dni 1420. Fragment of a sixteenth century English translation of Buondelmonti down to the end of § 7. No maps. 1 Destruction of the Greek Empire, p. 437. 2 Pp. 268-9 (\i/i$iv rrjs xpuffJjs in)A7)$). 3 P. II. LEVANTINE GEOGRAPHY. 199 Add. 15,760,/i 75, folio, vellum. Insularium illustratum Henrici Martelli Germani (c. 1490). Beautifully written in an Italian hand : the maps are elaborately coloured and framed. In spite of the author's claim in his preface to have visited some of the places he describes, in the Greek islands at least, he follows Buondelmonti's order and abridges the latter's descriptions. Beyond Buondelmonti's islands the volume includes maps of ' Ciprus, Sicilia, Corsica, Sardinia, Anglia, Ibernia, Norvegia, [Creta (large folding map without text)] (PI. I. Fig. 1), [Terra Sancta], Taprobana, [Italia], [Mundus],1 Oceanus septentrionalis, Mare Mediterraneo Mare Mauro.' (a) Iulius E. 11,^ 1—59, small folio, paper. Isulario de Antonio millo nel quale si contiene tutte le jsolle del mar mediteraneo, etc. Dated 1587. {b) Add. 1O,365, ff. 36-96, small folio, paper. Isulario De Tuto El Mare meditereno, etc., De Antonio Millo A rmiralgio Di Candia [preceded by an A rte del Navicar of the same author, dated 1581]. The author is evidently Leunclavius' ' senex multarum rerum peritus, Antonius Meliensis, Graeco patre natus in Melo insula, conductus a navarcho ut index itineris esset.'2 He is also responsible for a map of the world dated 1582 (Add. 2740). The work is primarily a sailors' handbook, the accounts of the islands, even of Melos itself, being very short and practical. The Greek islands are arranged as follows: Corfu, Pachso and Antipachso, Zafalonia, S. Maura, Zante, Sapiencia, etc., Cirigo, Millo, Serfo, Sifanto, Fermenia, Sira, Zia Andro, Tino, Micono, Dila, Paro, Nichsia, Negroponte, Schiro, Schiato and Schopoli, Dromo and Sarachino, Lemno pelagisi, Linbro, Tenedo, Mitilin, Sio, Psara, Nicaria, Samo, Patino, Stampalia, Nio, Santorini, Amurgo, Iero, 'Reproduced 1863, "publicado pelo Conde de Levradio," British Museum press-mark 920 (38)' [note in volume]. 2 Pandectes Rerum Turcicarum § 24, cf. § 86. 2OO F. W. HASLUCK Calamo, Anafi, Lango, Calogiero, Nisaro, Pischopia, Cargi and Limonia, Rodi, Scarpanto, Candia, Cipro. The maps are conventionally drawn and mark little. Add. 23,925, ff. 71, 4to, paper. ' Libro de le [hole del Mondo' ?] The volume contains 131 maps of various islands, about half being Greek. They are carelessly executed in colour and arranged in a haphazard manner, without separate text. Ancient and modern names and brief remarks, generally on physical features and natural products, are appended in an Italian hand of about 1500. In the margin are later notes, generally classical references and quotations. Lansdowne 792, ff. 55-94, small folio, paper (Fig. 1). ' Isolario dell' Arcipelago et altri Luoghiparticolari di Francesco Lupazolo, nel quale si vede il loro nome Antico et Moderno, modo di vivere, il numero delli populi, habbito delle donne, et le Antichita, si come altre cose particolari fuor dell' Isole,fatto I*Anno del S. 1638 in Scio.' Tournefort1 saw at Smyrna, 1702,' Signor Lupazzolo, a venerable old man of 118 years of age,' who was consul for Venice.
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