Shelfmark
DDa.3.12
Author
Uniform title
[Peregrinatio in terram sanctam]
Title
Sanctaru[m] peregrinationu[m] in montem Syon ad venerandu[m] xp[ist]i sepulcru[m] in Jerüsalem. atq[ue] in monte[m] Synai ad diua[m] virgine[m] et martire[m] Katherina[m] opusculum ... finit feliciter.
Varying form of title
Distinctive title: Sanctarum peregrinationum in montem Syon ad venerandum xpisti sepulcrum in Jerüsalem
Publication, distribution, etc.
[Mainz] : per Erhardum Reuwich de Traiecto inferiori impressum in ciuitate Moguntina, 1486 die xj Februarij.
Physical description
[164] leaves, [7] leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 30 cm. (Fo)
Note
Title and bibliographical details from the colophon.
Note
A f. [2]r: Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et domino domino Bertholdo sancte Maguntine sedis Archiepiscopo ... Bernardus de Breydenbach ... obedientiam promptam et deuotam
Note
Printer's device on the colophon.
Note
Woodcut illustrations and woodcut alphabets in the text by and after Reuwich.
Note
Six woodcut alphabet tables include the first representation of Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic characters in a printed book.
Note
Usually 42-44 lines per page. Printed in Gothic.
Note
Without signatures and catch-words.
Note
Author named on folio 2 recto: Bernhardus de Breydenbach.
Citation/references note
ISTC ib01189000.
Provenance
Annotations on ff. 2v-5v in a contemporary German (?) hand.
Provenance
Purchased in May 1976 for £275 by Stephen John Keynes (1927-2017) from Maggs Brothers, London (Oriental Miniatures & Illuminations. Bulletin No. 25 (1976), item 148. Loose leaf with the description of the item inserted and no. 148/OB25 written in pencil on the upper pastedown.
Provenance
Foliated in pencil by a mid- or late 20th-century British (?) hand.
Binding
20th- century vellum-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, two flyleaves at front and back of book.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: fragment of 42 leaves plus an additional final facsimile supplied before 1976, containing the entirety of the second section of the first part (about a third of the book), a series of chapters on the inhabitans of the Holy Land, their religions and beliefs and their languages.
Subject
Pilgrims and pilgrimage Israel Jerusalem Early works to 1800.
Subject
Pilgrims and pilgrimage Egypt Sinai, Mount Early works to 1800.
Subject
Jerusalem Description and travel Guidebooks Early works to 1800.
Subject
Sinai, Mount (Egypt) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Reuwich, Erhard, active 1483 - 1486 printer.
Added entry--name
Reuwich, Erhard, active 1483 - 1486 engraver.
Added entry--name
Keynes, Stephen John, 1927 - 2017 former owner.
Added entry--name
Maggs Bros booksellers.
Added entry--place
Germany Mainz
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50061