Itinerarius Ioannis de Hese presbiteri a Iheru[sa]le[m] describens disposit[i]o[n]es terraru[m] insularum, montiu[m] et aquarum, ac etiam queda[m] mirabilia et pericula per diuersas p[ar]tes mu[n]di contingentia lucidissime enarrans.

Accession number: 
PML 25136
Author: 
Hesse, Johannes de.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Cornelis de Zierikzee], [about 1500]
Description: 
[22] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1927.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 2:81G, 3:105G, and 6:150G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴ c-d⁶: 22 leaves, leaf d6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
The work entitled Divisiones decem nationum totius Christianitatis in Italian editions is sometimes entitled or catalogued as Tractatus de decem nationibus Christianorum in northern editions. The northern texts have small anti-papal additions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: d6 (blank).

Binding: 
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Itinerarius per diversas mundi partes, &c.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, 2 red initials (remainder unrealized). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Würzburg (Bavaria), Jesuits, inscription: "Collegium Societatis Iesu Herbipol.," legible under UV (leaf d6v); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., Dec. 1927.
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