The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight: Which treateth of the way towards Hierusalem and of marvayles of Inde with other ilands and countreysMandeville, John, Sir
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The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight: Which treateth of the way towards Hierusalem and of marvayles of Inde with other ilands and countreys
Mandeville, John, Sir
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
OF THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE NOW (1884) IN THE
BRITISH MUSEUM.
CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED.
MSS.
EGERTON MSS. 672. Johannis de Maundevilla
Itinerarium ad partes Ierusolumitanas, &c.
Vellum, 14 Cent., small 4^o.
Grenville XXXIX. A 14 Cent. MS. fol. on
vellum in double columns, which evidently has belonged to
one of the French Royal Libraries, as the binding testifies.
It commences "Ci comence le liure qui parle des diuersités
des pais qui sunt par universe monde: le quel liure fut compile
par mesire Jehan Mandeuille chlr ne dangleterre de la
uille con dit Saint Albain."
Harl. 3954. A MS. on vellum, end of 14th Cent., with unfinished
illuminations; fine copy.
Sloane, 1464. Voyage in 1356. Vellum, in French. Early
15 Cent.
Harl. 212 (1). Le Geste de S^r John Maundeville de Mervailles
de Monde. Small 4^o. French. Vellum. Early 15
Cent. MS. note at end seems to place it as having been written
previous to 1425.
Harl. 212 (2). La Copie de la Lettre maunde ovesque cest
Escrit a tres noble Prince Monsire E. de Wyndesore Roy
d'Engleterre, et de Fraunce, par Monsire Johan de Maundeville,
autour susdit.
Cotton, Tit. C. 16. English MS. 4^o. Vellum. Early 15 Cent.
Sloane, 560. De la Terre Seinte, que houme l'appelle Terre
de Promissionis de Ierusalem. Vellum. French. 15 Cent.
Add. MSS. 17,335. Travels of Sir John de Mandeville
translated into German by Otto von Diemeringen, Canon of
Metz. Vellum and paper, 15 Cent., with coloured drawings.
Fol.
Add. MSS. 10,129. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John
Mandeville; in German. On paper. 15 Cent. Fol.
Egerton MSS. 1982. "Ye buke of (_the voiage and travaile_
of Sir) John Maundeville." The text differs considerably from
that of the printed editions, and the prologue does not include
the apocryphal passage found in Cotton MS. Titus C. xvi., in
which the author states that he translated the work from Latin
into French, and from French into English. _Vellum._ 15
Cent. On the fly-leaf, f, 2, is a note by E. Hill, M.D., 22
Mar. 1803, stating that on a leaf of paper pasted on the inside
of the old cover, was written, "Thys fayre Boke I have fro
the Abbey of Saint Albons in thys yeare of our Lord
M.CCCCLXXXX the sixte daye of Apryll. Willyam Caxton,"
together with the name of Richard Tottyl, 1579, by whose
descendant, the Rev. Hugh Tuthill, the book was given to E.
Hill. Small quarto.
Harl. 82 (4). Itinerarium D. Joannis de Maundevyle
Militis, [Greek: akephaloi], et in fine Truncatum.
Vellum, fol. 15 Cent. In Latin.
Harl. 175. Itinerarium Dñi Johannis de Maundeville Militis,
de Mirabilibus Mundi. In Latin, 15 Cent. 12^o. Vellum.
Harl. 204. In French. On vellum. 4^o. 15 Cent. On the
last page is a copy of the letter to Edward III.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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