Accession number
PML 1675
Creator
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Object title
Iohannis de montevilla itinerari[us] in partes Iherosolimitanas, et in vlteriores transmarinas.
Published
[Cologne] : [Cornelis de Zierikzee], [about 1500]
Description
[48] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 1:150G, 2:81G, and 6:150G.
Dated by CIBN; Goff dates about 1495.
Signatures: a-c⁶ d⁴ e⁶ f⁴ g⁶ h⁴ i⁶: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 12.7 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 1:150G, 2:81G, and 6:150G.
Dated by CIBN; Goff dates about 1495.
Signatures: a-c⁶ d⁴ e⁶ f⁴ g⁶ h⁴ i⁶: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 12.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century English(?) hard-grained, gilt-tooled brown morocco over paper boards (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Yellow paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Itinerarius
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
George T. Strong (1820-1875), signatures (front endleaf 2 recto and a1r); George Beach De Forest, library acquired in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899.
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