BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Rubricated throughout; capitals in red and blue with initial strokes; paragraph marks and underlining in red; some yellow decoration. Printer's device below colophon decorated with red and yellow. Contemporary shelf-title on tail-edge: Scotus sup quatuor libs siñau., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Imperfect: some minor worming at front with slight damage to text and binding., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Provenance: "1490 Magister Georgius La[e]nntsch de Elling[e]n" (manuscript on page [1]); "Fouxetion" [?] (manuscript on front pastedown endpaper); "Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln, Das schöne gedruckte Buch, im ersten Jahrhundert nach Gutenberg" (bookplate). Marginal annotations throughout in the hand of Georg Läntsch von Ellingen. Ink manuscript sale catalog numbers on front and rear pastedown endpapers and relevant bibliographic citations on rear pastedown endpaper, dated 1948., BEIN 2018 Folio 117: Binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf binding with metal clasps. Rebacked in 17th century with pigskin; later leather label on spine. Paper stubs sewn in at end to stabilize binding by 21st-century binder. Manuscript quiring, mostly cut away., Commentary (based on Duns Scotus) on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris., Title from page [2]., Imprint from colophon (page [355])., Signatures: [1¹⁰ 2-11⁸ 12¹⁰ 13-15⁸ 16⁶ 17-22⁸]., Text in double columns; 60 lines and head-line; capital spaces., and Printer's device in colophon.
Publisher:
Spirensis ciuis Drach Petrus arte sua
Subject (Name):
Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1100-1160.
"Francischus becharius cuius lanue [con]posuit cartam presentem i[n] civitate Saone millessimo ccc̊c tercio de mense febry.", Contains one compass rose., Decoration: city views with banners., Imperfect: left edge torn and repaired with manuscript (17th century?) paper waste., Includes degrees of latitude along left edge: 26°N to 55°N., Pen-and-ink in black, red, blue and green., Portolan chart with seaport names given for all coastlines., Scale of leagues at upper and lower edges. Includes two additional bar scales, "Duitse mylen" and "Spaenis mylen.", and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800., Mediterranean Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800., and North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Topic):
Nautical charts--Black Sea--Early works to 1800., Nautical charts--Mediterranean Sea--Early works to 1800., and Nautical charts--North Atlantic Ocean--Early works to 1800.
An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route.
Alternative Title:
Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
Description:
1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, Capital spaces without guide letters., Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., and Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich.
Publisher:
P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori,
Subject (Geographic):
Jerusalem--Maps., Palestine--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Sinai (Egypt)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Venice (Italy)--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Breydenbach, Bernhard von,--d. 1497--Travel., Reuwich, Erhard, fl. 1483-1486., and Richard, J.,--D.M.--Stamp.
Subject (Topic):
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Palestine--Early works to 1800., Incunabula in Yale Library., Monasteries--Czech Republic--Olomouc--Inscription., and Travelers' writings, German--Early works to 1800.
BEIN: Ms. annotations on endpapers and throughout text. Ms. remnants used in binding., Place and date from t.p., printer statement from colophons: colophons (foot of H4 recto and on 2O2 verso) read: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete, in the house of Thomas Berthelet. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum folum. Anno dñi. 1550., and Signatures: pi² A-H⁴ ²A-2N⁴ 2O².
Publisher:
in the house of Thomas Berthelet ;
Subject (Name):
Ratcliffe, John,--d.1776--Autograph and Strickland, J. Elston--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
English language--Dictionaries--Italian, Italian language--Dictionaries--English, and Italian language--Grammar--1500-1800
BEIN MS 853: Bound with: Lasso, Orlando di. Orlando Lassi Sacrae cantiones ... Noribergae : In officina typographica Catharinae Gerlachiae, 1586., BEIN MS 853: From the library of Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Latin inscription on front pastedown. Bookplate removed. Bound in blindstamped half vellum and boards decorated with a ms. leaf. Imperfect: f2 mutilated., Tenor part only of motets for 5 or 6 voices., Date precedes publisher statement on t.p.; the word "tenor" within elaborate border follows the date and precedes the publisher statement., Dedicated to Emperor Maximilian II, whose arms appear on t.p., and Signatures: a-g⁴ (g4 verso blank).
Publisher:
Excudebat Adamus Berg
Subject (Topic):
Motets and Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
Bar scale given in "milliaria Germanica communia"., French text on verso, with running and caption title "L'archevesche de Saltzbourg" and signature 4G., From Jan Jansson's Nouvel atlas ..., 1652-1658., Hand col. Sheet measures 51.0, and Relief shown pictorially.
Publisher:
Apud Ioannem Ianssonium,
Subject (Geographic):
Salzburg (Austria : Land)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Bound with Guilelmus Parisiensis. Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia. [Eltville, 1476?], Fol. 1 and 140 blank., and For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Two volumes, in two different hands, with drawings in ink (some colored) on vellum of swan marks granted by the King of England to persons who have lands valued at least 500 marks and who wish to keep swans, otherwise designated a royal bird and the property of the crown. The catalog of marks assigned to each family, in rough alphabetic order is preceded by a summary of various laws related to the keeping of swans and their designation as royal game. From Horace Walpole's 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole at Strawberry-Hill near Twickenham, Middlesex: Curious books in the glass closet in the library ... Two books of swan-marks, on vellum: extremely rare
Description:
In English and Latin., Title from preliminary leaf, larger volume, on paper bound in preceding marks on vellum leaves., Title on preliminary leaf in smaller volume: The swane booke., Both volumes with the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 25. B., and Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two books of Swanmark's, 8vo, bound in vellum, and extremely rare.
