tib01191000

Text-inc Id:

tib01191000

Bod-inc Id:

B-554

Headings:

Breydenbach, Bernhard von Peregrinatio in terram sanctam [Dutch] Die heylighe beuarden tot dat heylighe grafft in iherusalem.

Analysis of content:

1. a2r Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Letter addressed to] Berthold [von Henneberg], Archbishop of Mainz. Incipit: ‘[H]ochweerdichste vader in Cristo en[de] here, mijn geminde here, dat ic voir my ghenomen heb . . .’ See B‑553.
2. a3v ‘Die tafell bewysende alle dat in dit boeck becreuen staet'.
3. a5r Breydenbach, Bernhard von: [Peregrinatio in terram sanctam.] ‘Die heylighe beuarden tot dat heylighe grafft in Jherusalem'. Incipit: ‘[T]eer heiligher en[de] saligher beuaerden ouer dat meer the Jherusalem . . .’
4. y6r ‘Die namen der eylanden van Venegien tot Rodis toe'.
5. y7r ‘Sommighe ghemeen woerden van sarraceensche sprake ouer gheset in duytsche sprake'.
6. y7v ‘Een cleyn toereydinghe totter nauolghenden historien'. Incipit: ‘[N]a bescriuinghe der tweer onser reysen . . .’
7. y8r [Isidorus, Archbishop of Kiev: De Constantinopolitane vrbis expugnatione.] ‘Vant ghewin der stadt Constantinopelen doir die Thurcken'. Incipit: ‘[I]nt jaer ons heeren .m.cccc.lij. als die stadt Constantinopole . . .’ See B‑552.
8. z2r [De Nigroponti captione.] ‘Hoe dat Nigropont ghewonnen wert als die selue Cardinael bescrijfft'. Incipit: ‘[D]ie ghelouighe en[de] machtighe stadt Nigropont . . .’ Possibly a letter written by Balthasar Perusino about the taking of Negroponte in July 1470 and addressed to the Duke of Urbino, see Davies p. x.
9. z4v [Caorsin, Guilelmus: Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio.] ‘Van die stadt Rodis hoe dat se beleghen wert van den thurck'. Incipit: ‘[A]lsoe als ick wille hebbe om dat belegh der stadt Rodis te bescriuen . . .’ See B‑552. On authorship see Davies p. x.
10. [et]6r [De captione ciuitatis Ydruntine.] ‘Hoe dat die stadt Ydruntina van die thurcken ghewonnen wert'. Incipit: ‘[N]ae dat die stadt en[de] eylant Rodis . . .’

Imprint:

Mainz: Erhard Reuwich, 24 May 1488. Folio.

Collation:

a⁸ b⁴ c^2+2+2+2 d₁² d₂² d₃²⁺² d₄²⁺² d₅²⁺² e⁸ f⁶ g²⁺²⁺² h–n⁸ o⁶ p q⁸ r⁶ s–z⁸ [et]⁸. Davies collates a⁸ b⁴ c⁸ d¹⁶ e⁸ f g⁶ h–n⁸ o⁶ p q⁸ r⁶ s–z [et]⁸. 17 woodcuts; seven topographical views; woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ib01191000 GW 5081; HCR 3963; Goff B‑1191; BMC I 44; Pr 159; BSB‑Ink B‑914; Campbell, Maps, 65; CIBN B‑776; Oates 54; Schramm XV p. 7; Schreiber V 3633; Sheppard 100. LCN: 13983011

Copies:

1. B-554(1) Copy Wanting the woodcut of the Holy Land (g) and the blank leaf [et]8. Leaf a1 reversed in binding. The woodcut of Venice (c) partly backed; mutilated sections provided in manuscript. The view of Rhodes (d5 /d12-16) partly backed, and defective at the joints. Binding: Eighteenth-century Dutch(?) mottled calf with gold-tooled spine; marbled pastedowns; endleaves watermarked with the Maid of Holland and ‘WVB'. Size: 290 × 210 × 38 mm. Size of leaf: 282 × 194 mm. Early marginal notes, washed out. Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes. Provenance: Purchased from Asher & Co. for £4. 4. 0; see Library Bills (1851-5), no. 77, and Books Purchased (1853), 12. SHELFMARK: Auct. 6Q 5.21.