Itinerarius: PB 23-2020

Titles

Itinerarius
Translated as: Reysen und wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land

Maker(s)

Author: Mandeville, John
Translator: Diemeringen, Otto von
Printer: Richel, Bernhard

Categories

• Book

Description

[Basel, Bernhard Richel, about 1481]
Ills: fol.[a7]r
Paper, Folio, 274 x 196 mm, 100 fols. (out of 104 fols., lacking leaves [a1], [d10], [i1], [m10]); regular early foliation in brown ink

Type: Gothic

BINDING: early nineteenth century, German, half calf over pasteboards, marbled paper, gilt-lettered on spine (‘Kloss binding’)

CONTENTS
fol.[a7]v Jean de Mandeville, Itinerarius [German] Reysen und wanderschafften durch das Gelobte Land, translated by Otto von Diemeringen

DECORATION
One hundred forty-four woodcut vignettes [variable size] painted in vivid colours outlined with full or partial wide red border, of personages, animals, plants and fantastic creatures, of which the first one full-page, illustrating the departure of Jean de Mandeville (fol.[a7]r).

ORNAMENTATION
Red penwork initial [I, 10 ll.] on fol.[a2]r; woodcut initial [D, 12 ll.] washed in green and brown on red ground on fol.[a7]v; woodcut initial [D, 6 ll.] coloured in red on fol.[f3]r; capitals highlighted in red.

ISTC im00165000; C 3833; GW M20412

Notes

History note: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss, of Frankfurt am Main (1787-1854), his ex libris label and annotation inside upper cover; on sale at auction of Kloss’ library by Sotheby and Son, London, 7 May 1835, lot 4424; unidentified owner, inscription ‘April 1839’ inside upper cover; Ellis & Elvey, booksellers, description of catalogue loosely inserted, reporting the provenance of this copy from Kloss’ library; ‘Purchased from [Ellis & Elvey] March 1898’, note on Ellis & Elvey’s catalogue description; ‘Bought March 1898’, note on recto of front paper endleaf; letter [addressed to M.R. James from Albert George Dew-Smith (1848-1903), dated ‘March 3. 1898’] with details of the sale of a ‘Mandeville book’ of the Ashburnham’s library by Sotheby’s, London, 9 December 1897 (i.e. 6 December 1897), second part, loosely inserted (however the edition of lot 2465, sold to Ellis & Elvey, for £19. 50s, does not correspond to the edition of the Fitzwilliam’s Mandeville); Frank McClean (1837-1904); his bequest, 1904.