[Sir John Mandeville's travels]
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Description
- Title
- [Sir John Mandeville's travels]
- Alternative Title
- Itinerarium. English
- Creator
- Mandeville, John, Sir
- Contributor
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Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership
Mandeville, John,--Sir
Sneyd, Walter,--1809-1888--Bookplate
Theyer, John,--1597-1673--Autograph - Published / Created
- [ca. 1440]
- Publication Place
- England,
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of a Middle English text of the Book of Sir John Mandeville, probably related to the "Defective Version." Biblical quotations in Middle English on f63v-f64v.
- Description
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Annotation, in a later hand, on f1r: Sir John Mandevile's Travails.
Binding: 18th-century full mottled calf, gilt. Spine label reads: Mandevil's travails.
From the collection of John Theyer; from the collection of John Barwick of Charing; ex libris Walter Sneyd; ex libris Sir Thomas Brooke; from the collection of Sir John Arthur Brooke (Sotheby's London sale 25 May 1921, lot 921); from the collection of Sir R. Leicester Harmsworth (Sotheby's London sale 15 October 1945, lot 2023). Purchased from Martayan Lan Rare Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2011.
Opening illuminated initial with ivy-leaf sprays into margins and 17 blue initials with extensive red penwork flourishing. Three contemporary or near-contemporary marginal drawings, one with color wash, of manicula.
Script: cursive anglicana hand in brown ink; 32 lines per page.
Side notes and notation marks in various hands, 15th-17th century.
Sir John Mandeville is the suppositious author of the "travel" book known as the Book of Sir John Mandeville, or Mandeville's Travels. Written in the 14th century in Anglo-Norman French, it was widely popular and thought to be an accurate account of a knight's journey through Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Extent
- 64 leaves : parchment ; 220 x 145 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English, Middle (1100-1500)
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Osborn a55
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Manuscripts
Travel literature - Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name)
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Harmsworth, R. Leicester--(Robert Leicester),--Sir,--1870-1937--Ownership
Mandeville, John,--Sir
Sneyd, Walter,--1809-1888--Bookplate
Theyer, John,--1597-1673--Autograph - Subject (Topic)
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English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Sir John Mandeville, Sir John Mandevile's Travails. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 10177910
- Object ID (OID)
- 11685482
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.osborn.a55.htm
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