Reuerendissimo in xpo patri et d no d no Bertholdo sancte Mag uti n sedis archiespiscopo Sacri Romani Imperij per Germani a archicancellario ac principe electori d no suo gratiosissimo Bernhardus de Breydenbach dicte ecclesie Maguntine n. decanus simul et...
Imprint:
Mainz: P[er] Erhard u Reiiwich de Traiecto Inferiori impressum, 1486 die 11 Februarij.
Caption title.
Uniform title from Goff; imprint from colophon.
Woodcuts by E. Reuwich who accompanied the author on his travels.
All plates have some text printed on the verso; the GW leaf count (164) includes the 30 leaves used to make up the folded plates.
Final leaf blank.
Woodcuts hand-colored; large initials supplied by hand in red or blue paint; rubricated throughout.
Final leaf wanting.
Armorial bookplate: Thomas Brooke F.S.A. Armitage Bridge.
Typed (bookseller's?) description in red and black mounted on recto of first front fly leaf.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
DS104 .B84 1486
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIB01189000-B
B-1189
Author:
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, d. 1497
Short
Title:
Peregrinatio in terram sanctam
(1490)
Title:
Reuerendissimo in Christo patri et dno Bertholdo sancte Maguntin. sedis archiepiscopo Sacri Romani Imperij per Germani a archicancellario ac principe electori d no suo gratiosissimo Bernardus de Breydenbach dicte ecclesie Maguntinen. decanus simul et came...
Imprint:
Speier: Per Petrum Drach, 1490 die 29 Iulij.
Comments
and Notes:
Caption title.
Uniform title from Goff; imprint from colophon.
The ill., views and map from drawings by Erhard Reuwich, are printed from the original blocks used in the first ed. (Mainz, 1486)
Signatures: a8 e-n8 p10; plates signed b c1 c2 c3 d1 d2 and [o] but are not regularly quired.
All plates have some letterpress on verso; GW leaf count (120) includes the 30 leaves used to make up the folded plates.
Plate signed c3 perfected incorrectly; ill. is upside down when text is bound in rightside up.
Final leaf blank.
First leaf (full page woodcut on verso) and last leaf (blank) wanting; the 6 leaf extension for the plate signed b, the 2 leaf extension for the plate signed d2, and the 4 leaf extension for the map wanting.
Hand-lettered initials in red; text rubricated throughout.
Armorial bookplate: Six van Hillegom; dealer's label: Menno Hertzberger, Amsterdam.