[I]ncipit itinerarius a terra anglie i[n] partes iherosolimitanas.

Accession number: 
PML 32727
Author: 
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Published: 
Zwollis impressus : per me Petrum de Os, Anno domini M.CCCC.IXXXIII in prefesto netivitatis beate marie viriginis Mensis septembris [7 September 1483]
Description: 
[1], I-xcviii, [1] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1936.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf n4r: Explicit ytinerarius dom[in]i iohannis de mandevilla zwollis impressus per me petru[m] de os Anno d[omi]ni M.CCCC.IXXXIII in p[re]festo netivitatis beate marie viriginis Mensis septembris. [Os's device]
Printed in Os's type 5C:106G.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l⁶ m⁸ n⁶: 100 leaves, leaf a1 blank. Leaf a2 signed a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.7 x 12 cm.

Binding: 
Modern gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Zaehnsdorf. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Itinerarius

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations (leaves a3v-4r only).

Provenance: 
Unidentified ownership stamp, abraded (leaf a2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., April 1936.
Classification: 
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