Accession number
PML 42798
Creator
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Object title
Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.
Published
[Basel] : [Bernhard Richel], [about 1481]
Description
104 leaves : woodcuts: illustrations, initials ; 29 cm (fol and 4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1951.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Richel's types 5:180G, 6:93G, and 7:93G.
Translated by Otto von Diemeringen.
148 woodcuts.
Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4⁸(4+1: "het er den") 5-7⁸ 8-9⁶ 10-12¹⁰]: 104 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto half-sheet (leaf [4]/4+1 only).
1 column, 42 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Richel's types 5:180G, 6:93G, and 7:93G.
Translated by Otto von Diemeringen.
148 woodcuts.
Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4⁸(4+1: "het er den") 5-7⁸ 8-9⁶ 10-12¹⁰]: 104 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto half-sheet (leaf [4]/4+1 only).
1 column, 42 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
Contemporary German 1/4 blind-tooled calf over beech boards (28 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports, perhaps bound at Regensburg(?), with tools similar to those assigned to the workshop of the Regensburg Hirschrolle or Hirsch-Rolle III (EBDB w000398/Kyriss 150, active 1492-1517). Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands. 1 clasp.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title on top board.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, Oct. 1951.
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