Accession number
PML 25136
Creator
Hesse, Johannes de.
Object title
Itinerarius Ioannis de Hese presbiteri a Iheru[sa]le[m] describens disposit[i]o[n]es terraru[m] insularum, montiu[m] et aquarum, ac etiam queda[m] mirabilia et pericula per diuersas p[ar]tes mu[n]di contingentia lucidissime enarrans.
Published
[Cologne] : [Cornelis de Zierikzee], [about 1500]
Description
[22] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 2:81G, 3:105G, and 6:150G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c-d⁶: 22 leaves, leaf d6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
The work entitled Divisiones decem nationum totius Christianitatis in Italian editions is sometimes entitled or catalogued as Tractatus de decem nationibus Christianorum in northern editions. The northern texts have small anti-papal additions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: d6 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 2:81G, 3:105G, and 6:150G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c-d⁶: 22 leaves, leaf d6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
The work entitled Divisiones decem nationum totius Christianitatis in Italian editions is sometimes entitled or catalogued as Tractatus de decem nationibus Christianorum in northern editions. The northern texts have small anti-papal additions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: d6 (blank).
Binding
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Itinerarius per diversas mundi partes, &c.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, 2 red initials (remainder unrealized). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Würzburg (Bavaria), Jesuits, inscription: "Collegium Societatis Iesu Herbipol.," legible under UV (leaf d6v); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., Dec. 1927.
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