tim00162500

Text-inc Id:

tim00162500

Bod-inc Id:

M-055

Headings:

Mandeville, Johannes de Itinerarius [English] Travels. Fragment.

Analysis of content:

1. See M. Letts, Mandeville's Travels: Text and Translation, Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2nd ser. 101-2 (London, 1953), p. xxx and 2-5; Waters Bennett, Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville, 346 no. 1; VL V 1201-14.

Imprint:

[London]: Richard Pynson, [1497-8]. 4°. As dated by BMC; STC dates [c.1496], Sheppard [1496].

Collation:

a–g⁸ h i⁶ k⁴.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: im00162500 C 3842; BMC XI; Pr 9813; Duff 285; Sheppard 7542; STC 17246. LCN: 14477757

Copies:

1. M-055(1) Copy Leaf a2 only, cropped, containing part of the introduction and the beginning of chapter 1: [recto]: ‘and wote neuer wheder that they ſhulde go. But wolde | god that the worldly lordes were at good accorde . . .'; [verso]: ‘IN the name of god almyghty. He that woll paſ | ſe ouer the ſe . . . gothe into almaygne. | vnder the hyllys of lumbardy and it taketh into hym xl.’ Bound with:
   2. Jean de Mandeville, Travels. [London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1510?] (STC 17248), leaves H1 and H_5? only. Binding: Nineteenth/twentieth-century brown cloth. Size: 255 × 180 × 7 mm. Size of leaf: 141 × 94 mm. On a2v a bibliographical note in Hearne's hand. Marginal notes in various early English hands on item 2: ‘Sanctus Hieronimus ora pro me; S. Leodegarius o. p. m.; s. Thoma martyr o.p. m.; s. Erkenwaldus . . .'; list of some law codes and councils of Anglo-Saxons kings: ‘leges Ine, leges Alfredi, concilium aluredi, Eadrini regum, secretum Aelstani . . .'; ‘Pastor oues baculo mun[ ]at lupus . . .'; also notes by Hearne. Provenance: Thomas Hearne (1678-1735); notes (see above). Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755)(?). Perhaps bequeathed in 1755. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. QQ sup. 2.31(1). SHELFMARK: Arch. G. d.31(1).