Bod-Inc: M-056
Mandeville, Johannes de
Itinerarius [Italian] Tractato de le piu maravegliose cose.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page and summary of contents.]
A2r Mandeville, Johannes de: Tractato de le più maravegliose cose. Incipit: ‘[C]oncia(!) sia cosa che la terra ultimaria zoe la terra Sancta de promissione . . .’ I viaggi di Gio. da Mandavilla: volgarizzamento antico toscano, ed. Francesco Zambrini (Bologna, 1870), 1-207; see Waters Bennett, Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville, 379 no. 8; VL V 1201-14.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Manfredus de Bonellis, de Monteferrato, 2 Dec. 1496. 4°.
Collation
Collation: A–N4 O6 P4.
Illustrations: Woodcut border (BMC V p. 503, border (2)) on A1r and initial ‘C' on A2r.
References
ISTC: im00173000
Hain: HCR 10656;
Goff: Goff M‑173;
BMC: BMC V 504;
Proctor: Pr 5366;
Others: Essling 907; Sander 4170; Sheppard 4427. Microfiche: Unit 6: Image of the World, Travellers' Tales.
LCN: 14477711
Copies
Copy number: M-056(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter green morocco, with green cloth over pasteboards; gold- and blind-tooled spine.
Size: 205 × 150 × 12 mm.
Size of leaf: 199 × 141 mm.
Early page numbering in brown ink: 1-122. Chapter CLXXVI on P1r is heavily cancelled by pen- and- ink. ‘06358' printed in red on a paper slip pasted on the front pastedown.
Provenance: Giacomo Manzoni (1816-1889); book-label. Purchased in 1893; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 8 May 1894, 448.
SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.1496.1.
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