The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary [...]
Publisher: Published by Edward Lumley
Published: 1839
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
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Full title:</b> The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Ilands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J.O. Halliwell, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.A.S.

</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. xvii, xii, 326. Signatures: A8 a4 chi1 B-2B8 2C4. Cloth. Frontispiece, illustrations. Endpaper signed: “Tho. Ballard, Ledbury.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reprint from the 1725 edition of a work attributed to the 14th century English traveler John Mandeville, which was in fact an English version of a text known as "Itinerarium," extending the great tradition of ‘travel liars’ from Ctesias and Euhemerus. It recounts the tales of a fictional fourteenth-century English traveler from St. Albans to the Holy Land and thence to Asia and other unchristianized regions. The original was probably written in Anglo-Norman French around 1357 and has been attributed to the Belgian compiler Jean d'Outremeuse. See E. Havens, “Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp. 59-60.
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