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[Journal], 4-24 October 1838.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tebbs, H. V. (Henry Virtue), author.
- Series:
- Grand Tour.
- The Grand Tour
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grand tours (Education)--History--19th century.
- Grand tours (Education).
- Italy--Description and travel.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- 4-24 October 1838.
- 1838
- Summary:
- Holograph diary, apparently incomplete, of part of a tour through Italy. The diary opens with a description of a tour of Herculaneum and of antiquities and sight-seeing in Naples, followed by a journey to Rome. Tebbs describes a visit to the Vatican Library and the manuscripts and incunabula shown to him by the librarians, including fragments of early Greek Gospel texts and a large Hebrew Bible presented by the Duke of Urbino. Tebbs and his unnamed companions then journey to Florence, where they see the major sites by engaging a guide to drive about the whole day, and then proceed to Bologna for two days, visiting the University and its library. The diary ends with their arrival in Piacenza.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: Osborn D 428
- Annotation on front pastedown: H. V. Tebbs. Glebe House, Chelsea. Vol. 2.
- OCLC:
- 1373887104
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