The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 83694

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10006

Shelfmark:

mssHM 83694

Title:

Book of John Mandeville

Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Itinerarium

Author:

Mandeville, John, Sir

John Mandeville WIKIDATA

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

second half of the 15th century].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Middle English and Latin

Middle English WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii + 38 + ii leaves : parchment ; 180 x 142 (145 x 108 mm)

Former Owner(s):

Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, 1805-1888

Matthew Bloxam WIKIDATA

Rugby School

Rugby School WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Written in England in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Parchment; ff. ii + 38 + ii leaves: 1-48, 56 (lacking a gathering, likely of 8 leaves, after f. 8). Layout: 1-48 56. 33 lines in brown to black ink in an Anglicana hand. Catchwords in the lower right on the verso of the last leaf of the gathering. Running title on f. 33r.
Two- and three line initials, some with penwork flourishing. Paraphs and side-notes in red.
Marginal annotations and emphasis marks, some trimmed, mainly in first third of work. Ownership inscription by Leveriche Forster dated 1555 on f. 38v. Numerous other 16th century signatures, such as John Almon of Puckeridge, Oxford on f. 38, John Athoine on ff. 1, 8 and 13, John Offlye on ff. 9, 11, and 12, and Robert Abraham on f. 15v. Autograph on f. ir at beginning: Matt. H. Bloxam, Rugby...

Keyword:

marginalia (annotations)

Armorial bindings

manuscripts (documents)

Great Britain

Fifteenth century

Ink stamps

Mandeville, John, Sir

Travel

Middle East

Voyages and travels

Early works

Geography, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1863551

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens