Sir John Mandeville's travels.

Description

Title: Sir John Mandeville's travels.
Alternative Title: Itinerarium. English
Creator: Mandeville, John, Sir.
Contributor: Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate.
Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871---Bookplate.
Mandeville, John,--Sir.
Published / Created: [ca. 1400-1425]
Publication Place: [England],
Abstract: Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a Middle English copy of the "Defective Version" of the Book of Sir John Mandeville.
Description: Binding: contemporary light brown doeskin over wooden boards.
Decoration: decorated border on opening leaf of text incorporating coat of arms of the Norton family of Yorkshire; a few initials in blue ink with red penwork.
Four leaves preceding the Mandeville text contain numerous pen trials, a Latin prayer, medical advice organized by month, and a list of the archbishops of York. Two leaves following the text contain pen trials and Latin notes on the life of St. Wilfrid?.
Layout: single columns of 20-23 lines.
Previously owned by the Norton family of Yorkshire; Brockman family. Ex libris J. P. R. Lyell; H. L. Bradfer-Lawrence. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-.
Script: English bookhand.
Extent: 116 l. : parchment ; 170 x 125 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English, Middle (1100-1500)

Format: text
Genre: Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval--England--15th century.
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L.--(Harry Lawrence)--Bookplate.
Lyell, James P. R.--(James Patrick Ronaldson),--1871---Bookplate.
Mandeville, John,--Sir.
Subject (Topic): English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

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Citation: A handlist of western Medieval manuscripts in the Takamiya collection / Toshiyuki Takamiya, in The Medieval book: glosses from friends & colleagues of Christopher de Hamel, ed. by Richard Linenthal, James Marrow and William Noel. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & De Graff, 2010, pp. 421-437.
Sir John Mandeville, Sir John Mandeville's Travels. Takamiya MS 64.