[Peregrinatio in terram sanctam]

Description

Imprint from colophon.


Colophon reads: Sanctaru[m] peregrinationu[m] in montem Syon ad venerandu[m] [Christi] sepulcru[m] in Ierusalem. atq[ue] in monte[m] Synai ad diua[m] virgine[m] et martire[m] Katherina[m] opusculum hoc co[n]tentiuu[m] p[er] Erhardu[m] reuwich de Traiecto inferiori impressum in ciuitate Moguntina anno salutis. M.cccc.lxxxvj. die xj. Februarij finit feliciter.


Woodcut frontispiece featuring a richy-dressed woman with, to the left, the arms of Bernhard von Breydenbach and to the right and below respectively, those of Johannes von Solms, and Philip von Bicken.


Seven woodcuts with topographical views of Venice, Parenzo, Corfu, Modon, Candia, Rhodes and the Holy Land and Egypt, with Jerusalem at its centre. Five of these are extended to a greater length by the addition of folded sections.


Additional woodcuts show animals (camel, salamander, goats, giraffe, crocodile and unicorn), regional costumes and customs, and the Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopic alphabets.


Ornamental woodcut initial with the arms of Berthold von Henneberg, Archbishop of Mainz on the recto of leaf [2].


Ornamental woodcut initial on the verso of leaf [4].


Printed with 40-44 long lines to a full page.


No signatures.


Initial spaces, no guide-letters.


The final leaf is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01189000.


Indexed in: Hain-Copinger 3956; Goff B1189.

Features

Marginal annotations and manicules in black ink manuscript throughout, fifteenth- to eighteenth-century.


Detailed notes on this and other copies and editions in black ink manuscript in the hand of Michael Wodhull on the verso of the front free endpaper and recto of the first front flyleaf.


The ornamental woodcut initial on the verso of leaf [4] has been coloured in yellow.


Some major initials supplied and decorated in red and blue.


Other major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.


Capital strokes supplied in yellow.


Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue.


The woodcut of Venice is supplied from the 1502 Latin edition printed in Speyer by Peter Drach.


Some worm damage.


Wanting the final blank leaf.


Bindings


Seventeenth-century binding of red and brown mottled calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of triple fillets. The spine has six raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Breyde Pereg 1486. The other panels are gold-tooled with fleurons in between double fillets and the board edges are gold-tooled with double fillets. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the curl pattern in red, orange, green, blue and cream and the leaf edges are marbled in red, blue and cream. The book has a red silk ribbon register. The upper and lower boards are becoming detached from the spine at the joints. The book is preserved in a green cloth case with a red pared leather lettering piece gold-tooled with the words: Breydenbach - Mainz 1486. Size: 305 x 225mm. Leaf size: 298 x 212mm.

Provenance

At the bottom of the recto of leaf [2] is a faint autograph in ink manuscript: Stephanus Baluzius tutelensis. The book was previously owned by the scholar and historian Etienne Baluze (1630-1718), librarian to Jean-Baptiste Colbert.


Written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first front flyleaf is an autograph and date: M. Wodhull. Nov. 20th 1783. The book was once in the possession of the poet and book collector Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) who purchased it from the bookseller Payne in 1783.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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