Accession number
PML 30
Creator
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.
Object title
[Peregrinatio in terram sanctam].
Published
Mainz : Erhard Reuwich, 11 Feb. 1486.
Description
[164] leaves : ills. (woodcuts) ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett Collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from colophon (leaf [24]/7v): "Sanctaru[m] peregrinationu[m] in montem Syon ad venerandu[m] [Chr]isti sepulcru[m] Jerusalem..."
Printed with Peter Schoeffer's types 7:149G (heading) and 8:93G (text) (cf. GW and BMC).
Collation: [1-2⁶ 3²⁺²⁺²⁺² 4-5² 6-8²⁺² 9-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22²⁺²⁺² 23-24⁸]: 164 leaves, including fold-out topographic views, leaf [24]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Including 18 woodcuts and 7 fold-out topographical views (cf. Schramm, Bilderschmuck, XV: 1-26) by Erhard Reuwich.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice [3²⁺²⁺²⁺²], Modon [6²⁺²], Candia (i.e. Crete) [7²⁺²], Rhodes [8²⁺²], and the Holy Land [22²⁺²⁺²].
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8-31 x 22.2 cm.
PML copy with tears to maps, along seams and folds. Top board hinge cracked, nearly detached. Occasional staining to pages, largely not affecting text.
Printed with Peter Schoeffer's types 7:149G (heading) and 8:93G (text) (cf. GW and BMC).
Collation: [1-2⁶ 3²⁺²⁺²⁺² 4-5² 6-8²⁺² 9-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22²⁺²⁺² 23-24⁸]: 164 leaves, including fold-out topographic views, leaf [24]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Including 18 woodcuts and 7 fold-out topographical views (cf. Schramm, Bilderschmuck, XV: 1-26) by Erhard Reuwich.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice [3²⁺²⁺²⁺²], Modon [6²⁺²], Candia (i.e. Crete) [7²⁺²], Rhodes [8²⁺²], and the Holy Land [22²⁺²⁺²].
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8-31 x 22.2 cm.
PML copy with tears to maps, along seams and folds. Top board hinge cracked, nearly detached. Occasional staining to pages, largely not affecting text.
Binding
Fifteenth-century German quarter blind-tooled parchment over beech board sides (32.2 x 22.5 cm), on three double-bands; the binder has been attributed to Bamberg, Minoriten Granat (see Schwenke/Schunke, II: 26; not in EBDB) and the Rhineland-Pfalz region (see Spredel-Krafft, AW 145, p. 151). 2 clasps, leather straps, and incised leaf pattern on latches. Plain paper pastedowns. Manuscript quire guards of fourteenth- or early-fifteenth-century psalter, leaves appox. 72-75 mm wide. Repaired by Duprey Lahey.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: first foldout sheet. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar. Watermark betas made of first foldout which contains four of the same watermarks, one on each panel of the foldout.
Watermark: first foldout sheet, panel 2. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar.
Watermark: first foldout sheet, panel 3. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar.
Watermark: first foldout sheet, panel 4. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar.
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, only a few lombards completed in quire [2]. Sixteenth/seventeenth-century foliation. Annotations: Some contemporary and later marginal notations in several hands. "1483 p[rima] die Junii cepe[??]" (top of front pastedown), with a marginal note in same hand on the start date of the pilgrimage (leaf [2]/2r). Library pencil notes on pastedowns.
Watermark: first foldout sheet, panel 2. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar.
Watermark: first foldout sheet, panel 3. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar.
Watermark: first foldout sheet, panel 4. Bull's head with Tau on vertical bar.
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, only a few lombards completed in quire [2]. Sixteenth/seventeenth-century foliation. Annotations: Some contemporary and later marginal notations in several hands. "1483 p[rima] die Junii cepe[??]" (top of front pastedown), with a marginal note in same hand on the start date of the pilgrimage (leaf [2]/2r). Library pencil notes on pastedowns.
Provenance
Inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Hainrich von Zeir, signature (front pastedown); signature, Q. Meinnenf(?) (leaf [1]/1r); shelf mark "Loc. 43 Num 20" (leaf [1]/1r); William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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