Des sainctes peregrinations de iherusalem et des auirons & des lieux prochains. Du mont de synay & la glorieuse katherine: Cest ouuraige et petit liure contena[n]t du tout la description ainsi que dieu a voulu le do[n]ner a co[n]gnoistre.
Bernhard von Breydenbach (d. 1497)
Category
Books
Date
1488
Materials
Place of origin
Lyon
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3080928
Summary
Bibliographic description
[134] leaves, [7] folding leaves of plates : ill. (15 woodcuts, 7 copper engravings) ; fol. Imperfect: wanting leaves a1, s8, s9, s10, and all the plates. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "le Huem (Frere Nicole)" [i.e. author note for catalogue entry, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn on six supports; single gilt fillet border; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; brown leather title label on spine 'Peregrinat de Iherusalem'; red sprinkled bookblock edges; placard-style marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Bernhard von Breydenbach (d. 1497), author Nicolas Le Heun, author Erhard Reuwich (fl. 1483-1486), artist Michel Topié, printer Jacques Heremberck, printer