De la terre de promission cest assavoir de iherusalem et de plusieurs aultres isles de mer [et] les diverses [et] estra[n]ges choses qui sont esdictes isles.

Accession number: 
PML 610
Author: 
Mandeville, John, Sir.
Published: 
[Lyon] : [Pierre Bouttellier], [about 1490]
Description: 
[72] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf a2r: Ce livre est appelle mandeville et fust fait [et] compose par messiere Jehan de mandeville chevalier natif da[n]gleterre de la ville de sainct alein. Et parle de la terre de promission cest assavoir de iherusalem et de plusieurs aultres Isles de mer [et] les diverses [et] estra[n]ges choses qui sont esdictes isles.
Imprint and printer identification derived from BMC VIII, lvii, no. 2. GW (following Copinger) assigned to Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart, about 1485.
Printed in Bouttellier's type 1:109G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-k⁶ l⁸: 72 leaves, leaf l8 (presumably) blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts. The woodcut on leaf f2r is set in sideways.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.2 x 18 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: l8 (blank).

Binding: 
18th/19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled French red straight-grained morocco (26 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports for Beckford with his crests. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

De la terre de promission et les diverses et estranges choses

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout, inscriptions and pentrials (leaves a1r and l7v). 18th-century French bibliographic notes (front endleaves) and pagination.

Provenance: 
Unidentified French ownership, annotations, contemporary-1800; William Beckford (1760-1844), his library descended to his daughter Susan Euphemia Beckford Hamilton (1786-1859) and son-in-law Alexander Douglas Hamilton (1767-1852) 10th Duke of Hamilton; Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 2, 11 Dec. 1882, lot 2124, for £31.0.0 to Bernard Quaritch with sale bookplate (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 217, 19/5/96 and price code: wol/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Armorial bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books