Itinerarius
Translated as: Reysen und wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land
Author:
Mandeville, John
Translator:
Diemeringen, Otto von
Printer:
Richel, Bernhard
[Basel, Bernhard Richel, about 1481]
Ills: fol.[a7]r
Paper, Folio, 274 x 196 mm, 100 fols. (out of 104 fols., lacking leaves [a1], [d10], [i1], [m10]); regular early foliation in brown ink
Type: Gothic
BINDING: early nineteenth century, German, half calf over pasteboards, marbled paper, gilt-lettered on spine (‘Kloss binding’)
CONTENTS
fol.[a7]v Jean de Mandeville, Itinerarius [German] Reysen und wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, translated by Otto von Diemeringen
DECORATION
One hundred forty-four woodcut vignettes [variable size] painted in vivid colours outlined with full or partial wide red border, of personages, animals, plants and fantastic creatures, of which the first one full-page, illustrating the departure of Jean de Mandeville (fol.[a7]r).
ORNAMENTATION
Red penwork initial [I, 10 ll.] on fol.[a2]r; woodcut initial [D, 12 ll.] washed in green and brown on red ground on fol.[a7]v; woodcut initial [D, 6 ll.] coloured in red on fol.[f3]r; capitals highlighted in red.
ISTC im00165000; C 3833; GW M20412
History note: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss, of Frankfurt am Main (1787-1854), his ex libris label and annotation inside upper cover; on sale at auction of Kloss’ library by Sotheby and Son, London, 7 May 1835, lot 4424; unidentified owner, inscription ‘April 1839’ inside upper cover; Ellis & Elvey, booksellers, description of catalogue loosely inserted, reporting the provenance of this copy from Kloss’ library; ‘Purchased from [Ellis & Elvey] March 1898’, note on Ellis & Elvey’s catalogue description; ‘Bought March 1898’, note on recto of front paper endleaf; letter [addressed to M.R. James from Albert George Dew-Smith (1848-1903), dated ‘March 3. 1898’] with details of the sale of a ‘Mandeville book’ of the Ashburnham’s library by Sotheby’s, London, 9 December 1897 (i.e. 6 December 1897), second part, loosely inserted (however the edition of lot 2465, sold to Ellis & Elvey, for £19. 50s, does not correspond to the edition of the Fitzwilliam’s Mandeville); Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
Production date: AD 1472-08-13
Accession number: PB 23-2020
Primary reference Number: 240295
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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