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Reysen und Wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, Indien und Persien.

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).
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.
Classification
Century
Department