In Old Paris

FIVE DESCRIPTIONS of the cityfrom 1323 to 1790 include A Treatise of the Praises of Paris by Jean de Jandun (1323), The Description of the City of Paris by Guillebert de Mets (1407-34), A Description of Paris by the Venetian Ambassador’s Secretary (1577-79), Giovanni Paolo Marana’s Pleasant Critique of Paris (1692) and Letters from Parisby Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1790). It offersa select bibliography on Parisian history, urbanism and architecture; an architectural gazetteer; an appendix on the size and population of Paris from the 14th to the 18th century; a glossary, and an index. Berger, Robert PET Paris: An Electronic Tour of the Old City 3 (KE) THIS INTERACTIVE TOUR offers first-hand accounts from Paris’ origins in Roman Lutetia, through Carolingian and later medieval texts, to important descriptions of the city into the 18th century. It presents the people of the city, their trades and festivals, street life and ceremony and the Parisian underworld, documenting the growing pains of the modern metropolis . 46 paintings,engravings and sketches of cityscapes, exterior and interior views of individual buildings,document street life, trades and craftspeople, processions and other outdoor rituals. 3 interactive maps, c.1400, c.1600 and c.1800 Introduction, Bibliography. . Buondelmonti, Cristoforo Description of the Aegean and Other Islands ONE OF THE TREASURES in the James Ford Bell collection at the University of Minnesota is Henricus Martellus Germanus’ copy of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Description of the Archipelago, the Cyclades, and the Other Islands. The original work was written in Latin in 1420, and Henricus’s copy dates from c.1475. Buondelmonti’s original book was an account of the Greek islands, illustrated with maps, beginning at Corfu, then going down the western coast of Greece and into the Aegean Sea. In his version Henricus added maps and text for five new islands. The manuscript is in magnificent shape — the writing is clear, legible humanistic script, and the maps that accompany each entry are in vivid color. Evelyn Edson presents a facsimile edition of the entire manuscript, with introduction, complete transcription, English translation, notes, bibliography and index. In cooperation with the James Ford Bell Collection, Italica Press presents this book in full color at 8.5 x 11 inches, nearly the full size of the Bell manuscript.— Google Books