Bound with: 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +4284.5 and For fuller description see collation-slip in volume.
Manuscript, on paper, in a single hand, of portions of the text of Higden's Polychronicon. mostly related to the history of England from Brutus to Richard II. Preceded by a table of contents.
Alternative Title:
Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane and Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti
Description:
Binding: late seventeenth-century full calf; blind-ruled, with crown stamp in the corners. The binder has been identified as a London binder who also worked for Samuel Pepys. Metal chain attached from the upper cover, fourteen links, a ring on either end, and a middle swivel., Bound with: Martinus Polonus, Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana decreti (Strasburg, 1493); William Lyndwood, Constitutiones legitime seu legatine regionis anglicane, (Paris, 1504)., Decoration: Rubricated. Approximately 60 large initials in red with penwork in brown ink., Ex libris Alan G. Thomas. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., Layout: single columns of approximately 35 lines., MS is third of three works bound together. Paginated 1-195., Numerous marginal annotations in several contemporary and later hands. Marginal note on p. 136 refers to the death of Oliver Cromwell ("tyranno")., Script: English cursive bookhand., and Watermark: Briquet 11159?
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--History--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Higden, Ranulf,---1364., Martinus, Polonus, d. 1279, and Thomas, Alan G.--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and World history--Early works to 1800.
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route.
Alternative Title:
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, Capital spaces without guide letters., Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., and Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori,
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--Maps., Palestine--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Sinai (Egypt)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Venice (Italy)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von,--d. 1497--Travel., Reuwich, Erhard, fl. 1483-1486., and Richard, J.,--D.M.--Stamp.
Subject (Topic):
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine--Early works to 1800., Incunabula in Yale Library., Monasteries--Czech Republic--Olomouc--Inscription., and Travelers' writings, German--Early works to 1800.
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, d. 1497 Reuwich, Erhard, fl. 1483-1486
Published / Created:
anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
Call Number:
Zi +156
Image Count:
12
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Abstract:
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route.
Alternative Title:
[Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam] and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., Capital spaces without guide letters., Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., and Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori,
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--Maps, Methone (Greece), Palestine --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, Rhodes (Greece), Sinai (Egypt) --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Venice (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, d. 1497 --Travel and Reuwich, Erhard, fl. 1483-1486
Subject (Topic):
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, Monasteries--Czech Republic--Olomouc--Inscription, and Travelers' writings, German--Early works to 1800
BEIN ZZi 07: For Kachelofen's Psalters see H. Bohatta, Liturgische Bibliographie des XV. Jahrhunderts, no. 848-854, 886 (n.d.), 909-911 (1485), 929-930 (1497). This may be no. 910. Apparently removed from a binding. Laid in is a letter from Konrad Haebler (May 7, 1909), saying that he had compared this proofsheet with the Gandersheim Abbey copy of the Kachelofen Psalter, and found it in agreement, except for misprints and omissions. and Proofsheet of verso of one leaf (26 lines) and recto of another.
"Expliciunt questiuncule gra[m]maticales super donatum minorem engolisme impresse bene vise [et] correcte. Anno salutis christiane .M.CCCC.xCii.xvi. die mensis aprilis"--Colophon., Description based on bibliographies., and Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 16 leaves from first two quires. These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens (Paris, ca. 1530), from the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand.
Publisher:
Petrus Alanus and Andreas Calvinus,
Subject (Name):
Donatus, Aelius.--Ars minor
Subject (Topic):
Incunabula in Yale Library and Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
For fuller description see collation slip in volume. and Regula: "lecta et publicata...Rome in Cancellaria apostolica die Jouis.xxi.mẽsis Februarij anno Domini.M.cccc.lxxxviii..."; Revocatio: "lecta et publicata...Rome in Cancellaria apostolica die Sabati vigesimasecũda mensis Marcij anno incarnatiõis Dominice millesimo quadrigentesimo octuagesimo septimo..."
Publisher:
[Bartholomaeus Guldinbeck?]
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church. Pope (1484-1492 : Innocent VIII), Guldinbeck, Bartholomaeus, active 1475-1488, printer, and Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944--Autograph