Dit werck inhoudende die heylighe beuarden tot dat heylighe grafft in iherusalem. : en[n] van daen totten berch Synai tot die heilieghe maghet en[n] martelarisse Sunte katherin ghedruct doir meister Eerhaert rewick van vtrecht in die Stadt van mentzs Jnt iaer ons heerne .M.cccc. acht ende tachtich. opten .xxviiij. dach in Meye Endet salichlicten.
Breydenbach, Bernhard von,-1497.
Henneberg-Römhild, Berthold,1442-1504,dedicatee.
Isidorus,Cardinal,-1463.
Caoursin, Guillaume,-1501.
Reuwich, Erhard,active 1483-1486,printer and illustrator.
[Mainz : Erhard Reuwich,
24 May 1488]
Title and imprints from colophon on leaf [et6] verso.
Printed in Peter Schoeffer's type 93.
Eleven woodcuts illustrations, mostly vignettes, on leaves a1 verso, e5 verso, k4 recto, o3 verso, o4 recto, o6 recto, p2 recto, p5 verso, y2 verso, z4 recto, and [et7] recto.
Six folding plates with topographical views (leaves c²²⁺²⁺² d1² d2² d3² d4²⁺² d5²⁺²), and one folding map (leaves g²⁺²⁺²) from drawings by Erhard Reuwich.
Woodcut initial on leaf a2 recto.
Printer's device on leaf [et6] verso.
Spaces left blank for initials.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ c²²⁺²⁺² d1² d2² d3² d4²⁺² d5²⁺² e⁸ f⁶ g²⁺²⁺² h-n⁸ o⁶ p-q⁸ r⁶ s-z⁸ [et]⁸. Last leaf [et8] blank.
With marginal annotations in early hand.
Initials supplied in red. Rubricated up to leaf e6.
Woodcut, a1v; Bernhard von Breydenbach. [Letter addressed to] Berthold [von Henneberg], Archbishop of Mainz, in Dutch, a2r-a3v; table of contents, a3v-a4v; Bernhard von Breydenbach. Peregrinatio in terram sanctam, in Dutch, a5r-y6r, including preface, a5r-a7v; "Die namen der eylanden van venegien tot Rodis toe", y6r-v; "Sommighe ghemeen woerden van sarraceensche spra=ke ouer gheset in duytsche sprake", y7r-v; [Isidorus, Archbishop of Kiev]. [De Constantinopolitane urbis expugnatione] in Dutch, y8r-z2r, preceded by preface, y8r; [De Nigroponti captione], in Dutch, possibly a letter written by Balthasar Perusino about the taking of Negroponte in July 1470 and addressed to the Duke of Urbino, z2r-z3v; woodcut, z4r; [Guilelmus Caorsin.] [Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio], in Dutch, z4v-[et6]r; [De captione civitatis Ydruntine], [et6]r-v; colophon, [et6]v; printer's device, [et6]v; woodcut, [et7]r.
BM 15th cent.
BN cat. des incun.,
Bod-inc
BSB-Ink
Goff
GW
Hain-Copinger-Reichling
ISTC
Klebs
Oates
Hugh William Davies, Bernhard von Breydenbach and his Journey to the Holy Land 1483-4. A Bibliography, London, 1911,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Digital facsimile.
Ink inscription at head of verso of leaf f3: pchus de winter ...[?] 1520[?] 21 Decemb. Acquired by the Advocates Library sometime in the 19th century.
Leather over boards with parchment spine bearing red leather gilt stamped title label.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Germany Mainz.