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BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von (d.1497). Peregrinatio in terram sanctam. Mainz: Erhard Reuwich [and perhaps Peter Schoeffer], 11 February 1486.
Chancery 2° (302 x 214mm). Collation: [16 (1r blank) 26 32(+3 fold-out sheets) 4-52 62(+1 fold-out sheet, 2v blank) 72(+1 fold-out sheet, 1r blank) 82(+1 fold-out sheet) 92(+2 fold-out sheets) 10-128 138(5r blank); 14-218 2210; 238 248 (8 blank)]. 147 leaves (of 148, without final blank), plus 8 fold-out sheets; 19/4.5, 24/6 and at least 2 sheets of the Venice view supplied from another copy; the Jerusalem view (quire 9) bound between 11/5,6. 44 lines (variable). Types: (Schoeffer 7):149G (headings), (Schoeffer 8):93G (text). Two woodcut decorated initials (the first with arms of Berthold von Henneberg, Archbishop of Mainz), 7 double-page and folding woodcut city views, several from multiple blocks and on multiple sheets (quires 3, Venice; 4, Parenza; 5, Corfu; 6, Modon; 7, Candia; 8, Rhodes, 9, Jerusalem), full-page woodcut allegorical figure of Mainz with the arms of Breydenbach, Johannes von Solms, and Philip von Bicken, 8 woodcuts of scenes from the Near East, 6 cuts of alphabets of Near Eastern languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic), Reuwich device at end. 4- to 7-line initials and paragraph marks alternating in red or blue (the blue somewhat washed), red capital strokes and underlining. (The allegorical woodcut window-mounted with very slight loss at extremities and reversed in binding, one leaf on guard, c.16cm-wide central section of Venice view in pen-and-ink facsimile and 3 of its 4 sheets apparently supplied from another copy, central sheets mounted, Modon and Candia views repaired with minimal loss, Rhodes view with narrow sections in pen-and-ink facsimile, its right-hand sheet possibly supplied, some repairs on verso.) Mid 19th-century crimson straight-grained morocco tooled in gilt and blind, gilt edges (just a little scuffed). Provenance: a few contemporary annotations, particularly noting the Turks and Rhodes -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners).
FIRST EDITION. This account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai by Breydenbach, Graf Johannes von Solms, Philip von Bicken and others in 1483-4 is a valuable description of places on the way to, and in, the Holy Land. In many ways it is an early guidebook and contains information on distances, alphabets of languages encountered en route, manners and customs of various peoples, and an Arabic vocabulary. To add to the vividness of the descriptions, Erhard Reuwich, a Utrecht artist who also made the journey, provided panoramic views of seven cities, as well as scenes of animals, people and buildings. The views set the Peregrinatio apart from other illustrated incunables. They are the first of their kind to be printed, they record actual views, and most of them were printed from multiple blocks over several sheets. Reuwich, not otherwise known as a printer, printed this first edition, and German (1486) and Dutch (1488) translations. The types are Peter Schoeffer's, but differences in composition and lay-out make it clear that Reuwich, not Schoeffer, was indeed the printer, as the colophon states. The blocks for the panoramic views were used in Reuwich's own three editions, a 1490 Speier edition, a French edition printed at Lyons in 1489, and a Spanish edition printed at Zaragoza in 1498.
A variant from GW is on fo.4v, line 1, which ends ...pera-/. HC *3956; GW 5075; BMC I, 43 (IB. 331); IGI 2055; Goff B-1189.
Chancery 2° (302 x 214mm). Collation: [1
FIRST EDITION. This account of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the monastery of St. Catherine of Sinai by Breydenbach, Graf Johannes von Solms, Philip von Bicken and others in 1483-4 is a valuable description of places on the way to, and in, the Holy Land. In many ways it is an early guidebook and contains information on distances, alphabets of languages encountered en route, manners and customs of various peoples, and an Arabic vocabulary. To add to the vividness of the descriptions, Erhard Reuwich, a Utrecht artist who also made the journey, provided panoramic views of seven cities, as well as scenes of animals, people and buildings. The views set the Peregrinatio apart from other illustrated incunables. They are the first of their kind to be printed, they record actual views, and most of them were printed from multiple blocks over several sheets. Reuwich, not otherwise known as a printer, printed this first edition, and German (1486) and Dutch (1488) translations. The types are Peter Schoeffer's, but differences in composition and lay-out make it clear that Reuwich, not Schoeffer, was indeed the printer, as the colophon states. The blocks for the panoramic views were used in Reuwich's own three editions, a 1490 Speier edition, a French edition printed at Lyons in 1489, and a Spanish edition printed at Zaragoza in 1498.
A variant from GW is on fo.4v, line 1, which ends ...pera-/. HC *3956; GW 5075; BMC I, 43 (IB. 331); IGI 2055; Goff B-1189.
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