found: Niccolò, da Poggibonsi. The German translation of Niccolò da Poggibonsi's Libro d'oltramare, 1985:title page (Niccolò da Poggibonsi) p. ii (in preface by the editor, C.D.M. Cossar: Niccolò, a Franciscan from Poggibonsi; wrote about his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1346-1350)
found: LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Niccolò da Poggibonsi, fl. 1345)
found: Gensini, Sergio. "NICCOLÒ da Poggibonsi," in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 78, 2013, via Treccani.it website, May 31, 2018(Niccolò da Poggibonsi, born between 1310 and 1320 at Poggibonsi, near Siena; calls himself "Frate Nicola di Corbico da Poeibonici del contado di Fiorenca dela Provincia di Toscoana" in an acrostic formed from the initial letters of chapters 13 (second half)-86 of his Libro d'Oltramare; father was probably a person named in a document as "Corbiczino Nicolai de Podio Bonitii"; in the "Proemo" to his Libro d'oltramare, he calls himself (in a 1945 edition) "frate Niccolò de' frati minori di Poggibonizi"; his use of "da Poggibonsi" in his name means he was born there, according to contemporary usage among Franciscans; entered the Franciscan order, and embarked on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in early March 1346 (1345 Old Style); left from Poggibonsi; journeyed to Venice, from where he crossed the Mediterranean, stopping at Nicosia, Cyprus, for several months and then continuing to Jaffa and Jerusalem; traveled elsewhere in the Holy Land, including Hebron, Samaria, Galilee, Bethlehem and Jericho; continued to Damascus and elsewhere in Syria and Lebanon, then to Egypt (Damietta, Alexandria, Cairo); crossed Sinai; returned to Venice by way of Cyprus, Slavonia, Istria and Friuli, then back to Poggibonsi, arriving there around March-April, 1350))
found: Niccolò, da Poggibonsi. Libro d'oltramare, 1881, via Archive.org, May 31, 2018:title page (by fra Niccolò da Poggibonsi; edited by Alberto Bacchi della Lega) v. 1, page X (frate Niccolò; nothing is known of him but his name, his birthplace Poggibonsi, the name of his father, Corbizi, and the adventures he himself described, beginning in 1345) v. 2, page 248 (Explicit liber sanctuarius de ultremare, editus et ordinatus ... a frate Nicholao de Podiobonizi) pages 4-195 (acrostic formed from the initial letters of chapters1-86 (2nd "F" and 2nd "i" are from end of preceding chapter) reads: Frate Nicoolao, Frate Nicola di Corbico da Poeibonici del contado di Fiorenca de la prouincia di Toscoana)
found: Golubovich, Girolamo. Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa e dell'Oriente francescano, v. 5, 1927:page 1 (section title: "1346-50. -- Terra santa. --Fr. Nicolò di Poggibonsi e il suo Libro d'oltramare"; beginning of section (Let us speak of the travels of our Nicolò, since we know nothing, nothing about his life; quotes Alberto Bacchi della Lega's Preface to the 1881 edition of Libro d'oltramare; acrostic formed from the initial letters of first 86 chapters reads: Frate Nicolao, Frate Nicola di Corbico da Pocibonici del contado di Fiorenca de la provincia di Toscana) pages 1-24 (passim: frate Nicolò; in running titles: fr. Nicolò di Poggibonsi)
found: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, May 31, 2018(nid=100954375: Niccolò, da Poggibonsi; active approximately 1345; other names: Nikolaus, von Poggibonsi; Nicolas, de Poggibonsi; Nicolaus, de Podiobonitio; Poggibonsi, Niccolò da; Niccolò, of Poggibonsi)
