Accession number
PML 607
Creator
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.
Object title
Des sainctes peregrinationes de iherusalem.
Published
Imprime a Lyon : par ... Michelet Topie ... et Jaques Heremberck, Mille.cccc.quattrevi[n]gtz [et] huictz et le .xxviii. de nove[m]bre [28 November 1488].
Description
[164] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts and engravings) ; 30.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf s7v: Des sainctes peregrinations de iherusalem et des auirons [et] des lieux prochains. Du mont de synay [et] le glorieuse lratherine [i.e. katherine]: Cest ouvraige et petit livre contena[n]t du tout la description ainsi que dieu a voulu le do[n]ner a co[n]gnoistre. Imprime a Lyon par ho[n]nestes ho[m]mes Michelet topie de pymont: [et] Jaques heremberclr [i.e. heremberck] dalemaigne demourant audit lyon. La[n] de nostreseigne[ur] Mille.cccc.quattrevi[n]gtz [et] huictz et le .xxviii. de nove[m]bre.
Printer's mark, leaf s8v.
Printed in Topié and Heremberck's types 1:136G and 2:100/101G.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺² c⁶⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺² d-h I k-m⁸ n⁶ o⁸ p⁶ q⁶⁺²⁺²⁺² r⁶ s¹⁰: 164 leaves, leaves a1 and s9-10 blank.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice, leaf b4+2 (4 sheets total fold-out); Parens (bound in after Venice), leaf b4+; Corfun (bound in after Parens), leaf b4+2; Modon, leaf b6+2 (2 sheets total fold-out); Candia, leaf c1+2; Rhodes, leaf c2+2; the Holy Land panorama, leaf q4+2 (4 sheets total fold-out).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
A free adaptation by Nicolas Le Huen.
Copper engravings and map; woodcuts and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: a1 and s9-10 (all blanks). Fold-out views have been repaired and remargined.
Imprint from colophon, leaf s7v: Des sainctes peregrinations de iherusalem et des auirons [et] des lieux prochains. Du mont de synay [et] le glorieuse lratherine [i.e. katherine]: Cest ouvraige et petit livre contena[n]t du tout la description ainsi que dieu a voulu le do[n]ner a co[n]gnoistre. Imprime a Lyon par ho[n]nestes ho[m]mes Michelet topie de pymont: [et] Jaques heremberclr [i.e. heremberck] dalemaigne demourant audit lyon. La[n] de nostreseigne[ur] Mille.cccc.quattrevi[n]gtz [et] huictz et le .xxviii. de nove[m]bre.
Printer's mark, leaf s8v.
Printed in Topié and Heremberck's types 1:136G and 2:100/101G.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺² c⁶⁺²⁺²⁺²⁺² d-h I k-m⁸ n⁶ o⁸ p⁶ q⁶⁺²⁺²⁺² r⁶ s¹⁰: 164 leaves, leaves a1 and s9-10 blank.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice, leaf b4+2 (4 sheets total fold-out); Parens (bound in after Venice), leaf b4+; Corfun (bound in after Parens), leaf b4+2; Modon, leaf b6+2 (2 sheets total fold-out); Candia, leaf c1+2; Rhodes, leaf c2+2; the Holy Land panorama, leaf q4+2 (4 sheets total fold-out).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
A free adaptation by Nicolas Le Huen.
Copper engravings and map; woodcuts and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: a1 and s9-10 (all blanks). Fold-out views have been repaired and remargined.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin over paper boards (30.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges. Previous binding by Charles Lewis.
Variant title
Checklist title: Peregrinationes in terram sanctam
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Philip Augustus Hanrott (1776-1856), his sale, Evans, part I, 16 July 1833, lot 1088 ("in Venetian morocco" -- in this the same copy?); Victor Masséna, prince d'Essling (1836-1910), his sale, Paris, 16 Feb. 1846, lot 364 for Fr. 601 (in English binding); François Xavier Joseph Ghislain Borluut de Noortdonck, bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, part II, 19 July 1858, lot 2798 for Fr. 1110 (in English binding); Alexander William Lindsay (1812-1880), 25th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, inherited by his son: James Ludovic Lindsay (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford & Balcarres, Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, Part I, 13 June 1887, lot 557; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and bibliographical notes: No. 206, 15/5/96 and price code: wm/-/- +com (rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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