Manuscript on parchment of Nicolaus de Lyra, Postillae on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and I-IV Kings.
Description:
19 pen-and-ink drawings with washes in red, green, blue and pale yellow, some inserted into the text column, others up to half-page size dealing with the Tabernacle in the Desert and the Temple of Solomon: the drawings serve to clarify the written text by depicting differences in interpretations between Jewish and Catholic exegesis; contrasting drawings are usually juxtaposed and labelled with the respective source for each., Binding: Modern restoration? Limp vellum case with earlier title (mostly illegible) running lengthwise on spine and later title added at top of spine: "Fr. Nicolai de Lyra ord. min. Commentaria in Libro historico Sacrae Scripturae"., ff. 43-44 loose., Many fine flourished initials, red and blue divided, 9- to 3-line, with penwork designs in red, blue and/or purple; somewhat smaller less ambitious initials alternate red and blue with designs in the opposite color. The minor decoration appears inconsistently, with running headlines, rubrics, paragraph marks and underlining of Biblical texts, in various colors or totally absent., Purchased in 1958 from Emile Rossignol, Paris, by L. C. Witten, who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand., and Written by several scribes in gothic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Nicholas,--of Lyra,--ca. 1270-1349
Subject (Topic):
Bible.--O.T.--Historical Books, Bible.--O.T.--Pentateuch, Bible--Commentaries, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Scholasticism
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
Americae pars quarta, sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primum Occidentali India a
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Maps --Early works to 1800, America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800, America --Early accounts to 1600, and Latin America --Description and travel --Early works
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 1. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616, and Feyerabend, Johann, 1550-1599
Collection Created:
Impressum Francofurti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Feyrabend : Impensis Theodori de Bry, anno MDLXXXXIIII [1594]