Manuscript fragment on parchment of Gregory the Great's Expositio in canticum canticorum, containing points 7, 9, and 14.
Alternative Title:
Works. 1480.
Description:
Both blank leaves wanting; mildewed, with considerable damage to paper at beginning and end of the volume, affecting the text of the last two leaves of letterpress. Bound in old stamped leather over wooden boards, lined with sheets of vellum manuscript (canon law); front, top, and bottom clasps; the hooks of the clasps, and the catches of the front cover are missing. Imperfect copy. For fuller description see collation leaf in volume., Bound with: 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +7157 2, Capital spaces., and Fol. 1 and 168 blank.
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.
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.
Bound with Guilelmus Parisiensis. Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia. [Eltville, 1476?], Fol. 1 and 140 blank., and For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
anno Domini MCCCCXCVI die penultima Iulij [30 July 1496]
Call Number:
1988 834
Image Count:
14
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Summa de regimine vitae humanae
Description:
Binding: sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps set in channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Beaded headbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves and nailed. Stubs, about 40 mm. wide, of the vellum ms. endleaves are tucked under strips of similar ms. glued at head and tail inside the boards but are not adhered. Covered in dark red/brown goatskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with a cross made up of fleurons on a pedestel in a central panel on the front board and a globe [?] on the back board; knotwork frames on both boards. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board and the straps attached with star-headed nails, Greek workshop?, Bought in Dec. 1987; the Edwin J. Beinecke fund., Bound with: Figure Biblie clarissimi uiri Fratris Antonii de Ra[m]pengolis Ordinis Sancti Augustini. Impressum Venetijs : Per Georgium de Arriuabenis Mantuanu[m], 1496 die XV. mensis Nouembris. (1988 834), and Imprint from colophon.
Publisher:
Per Georgiu[m] de Arriuabenis Mantuanum,
Subject (Topic):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800. and Incunabula in Yale Library.
BEIN Zi +5551 Copy 3: 31 cm. With copious annotations in Greek by Martin Crusius (1526-1607). Without capital M at the beginning of the last line on leaf 100b., Capital spaces, mostly with guide-letters., and Hain omits comma on f. 1a, line 2.
Publisher:
Aldus Manutius Romanus,
Subject (Name):
Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy)--Ownership., Bellingen, Ant. Van--Ownership., Crusius, Martin,--1526-1607--Ms. notes., Orford,--Lord--Ownership., and Seymour, Thomas D.--(Thomas Day),--1848-1907--Bookplate.