Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...
Publisher: Erhard Reuwich
Published: 1486
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: lat
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Early works to 1800; Description and travel
Other titles: Prefatio in opus transmarine peragrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum dominicum in Iherusalem; Praefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum dominicum in Iherusalem; Opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum dominicum in Iherusalem atque in montem Synai ad diuam virginem et matirem Katherinam opusculum; Sanctarum peregrinationum in montem Syon ad venerandum Christi sepulcrum in Ierusalem
Work titles: Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam
Description: Account of Breydenbach's pilgrimage to Palestine and Mt. Sinai in 1483-1484.
Notes: Title from incipit to preface (leaf [4]v). In some copies, the incipit has the reading "peragrinationis" instead of "peregrinationis".

Dedication by Bernhard von Breydenbach, whose name also appears in the woodcut on leaf [1]v.

Imprint from colophon.

Colophon (leaf [163]v): Sanctaru[m] peregrinationu[m] in montem Syon ad venerandu[m] [Christ]i sepulcru[m] in Ierusalem. atq[ue] in monte[m] Synai ad diua[m] virgine[m] et matire[m] [sic] Katherina[m] opusculum hoc co[n]tentiuu[m] p[er] Erhardu[m] reüwich de Traiecto inferiori impressum In ciuitate Moguntina Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxxvj. die .xj. Februarij Finit feliter.

Printed in types from the shop of Peter Schöffer, hence printing sometimes ascribed to him.

First edition.

Signatures: [1-2⁶ 3²(+3 fold-out sheets) 4-5² 6²(+1 fold-out sheet) 7²(+1 fold-out sheet) 8²(+1 fold-out sheet) 9-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22²(+2 fold-out sheets) 23⁸ 24⁸(24₈ blank)]; 148 leaves + 16 leaves on 8 fold-out sheets.

Illustrated with woodcuts, most after designs by Reuwich: 7 fold-out views of cities (Venice, Parenzo, Corfu, Modon, Candia, Rhodes, Palestine with Jerusalem), several printed from multiple blocks and the sheets pasted end-to-end; full-page armorial cut (leaf [1]v); 9 cuts of Near Eastern peoples, animals, buildings; 6 cuts of Near Eastern alphabets; 2 woodcut initials; and Reuwich's device (leaf [163]v).

Initial spaces, without guide-letters.

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper.

Hain-Copinger, 3956*

Proctor, 156

Goff, B-1189

GW, 5075

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 3628

Campbell, T. Earliest printed maps 1472-1500, 65

BM 15th cent., I, 43 (IB.331)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ib01189000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 31-32.

From the library of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Baron Amherst of Hackney, with his bookplate.

Original printed edition. Imperfect: leaf [1] is a 19th-century facsimile; 2 leaves only from the folding plates of Venice and Jerusalem are colored, with the other 6 and 4 respectively added from an uncolored copy; the plates of Parenzo, Corfu, Modon, Candia, and Rhodes come from another copy and are uncolored; the plate of Candia is mutilated at one of its folds. Initials added in red or blue. Woodcuts in the text uniformly colored. Manuscript annotation "Ex. Lib. J.B. Gerelsdorff" in lower margin of leaf [2]r. From the library of Count Riant, with his booklabel.

Imperfect: the 2 right sections of the folding plate of Jerusalem are wanting and have been replaced with those from the recut block of the Speyer, Drach, ed. of 1502; blank leaf not present. Leaf [1], with large woodcut on verso, has been inserted from a shorter copy.

Woodcuts uncolored; initial spaces not filled in. Old inscription erased from leaf [2]r; some early MS. annotations also erased.

In this copy, the incipit on leaf [4]v has the "peragrinationis" variant.

Bound in 19th-century vellum (worn); in a gray cloth case, 34 cm.

Bound in red morocco, gilt, by W. Pratt for F.S. Ellis.