Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et d[o]m[i]no d[o]m[i]no Bertholdo sancte Maguntin[um] sedis archiepiscopo sacri Rhomani imperij per Germania[m] archicancellario ac principe electori d[o]m[i]no suo gratiosissimo Bernardus de Breydenbach ...
Breydenbach, Bernhard von,-1497.
Reuwich, Erhard,active 1483-1486,illustrator.
Drach, Peter,-1504,printer.
Signet Library (Great Britain),former owner.StEdNL
Ciuem Spirensem impressum : Per Petrum Drach,
anno salutis nostre M.cccc.xc. die.xxix. Julij finit feliciter. [29 July 1490]
Caption title.
Uniform title from Goff.
Imprint from colophon in which the printer's name appears before the place of publication.
The illustrations, views and map from drawings by Erhard Reuwich, are printed from the original blocks used in the first ed. (Mainz, 1486).
Signatures: a⁸ e-n⁸ p¹⁰. Plates signed b c₁ c₂ c₃ d₁ d₂ and [o] but are not regularly quired.
All plates have some letterpress on verso; GW leaf count (120) includes the 30 leaves used to make up the folded plates.
Initials supplied in red. Rubricated.
With marginal annotations.
Borm
Campbell
CIBN
Finger
Goff
GW
HC
IBE
IDL
ISTC
Klebs
Madsen
Oates
Ohly-Sack
Pellechet
Rhodes (Oxford Colleges)
Sajó-Soltész
Walsh
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Pegg, M. A. Incunables in the National Library of Scotland: accessions 1946-1966,
Bought from the Signet Library in 1959.
19th-century triple fillet gilt ruled border with central gilt stamped arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet on front and back boards, gilt tooled spine with five raised bands, gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins and marbled pastedowns and endpapers.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Germany Speyer.