The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 - compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private (14778945542)

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Title: The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944 Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952 Wieder, F. C. (Frederik Caspar), 1874-1943
Subjects: Cartography American newspapers
Publisher: New York : Robert H. Dodd
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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THE CELLERE CODEX THE CELLERE CODEX The Cellere Codex may, without reasonable doubt, be accepted as an accu-rate and full embodiment of Verrazzanos famous lost letter to Francis I, giving apreliminary report of his memorable voyage along the east coast of North America,under French auspices, in 1524. No reference has been found to a later and fullerreport, although it seems altogether likely that such a report was written. The manuscript was discovered in 1909, in the private library of Count GiulioMacchi di Cellere, of Rome, although we know that as late as 1884 it formed partof the well-known Giovio-de Szeth library, of Como, founded by Paolo Giovioearly in the sixteenth century. It now belongs to the collection of J. PierpontMorgan, Esq., which contains also the interesting little Robertus de Bailly Globeof 1530, on which Verrazzanos discoveries are indicated. See C. PI. 17, and pages16 and 38. This Codex is one of the most important documents dealing with the topographyof the Nort