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.
