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
"And ye shall understande that Lothe was Arons sone, Abraham's
brother, and Sara Abraham's wyfe was Loths syster, and Sara was
xc yere olde when she gate Ysaac and Abraham had another son named
Ismael that he had gotten on his mayden Ager."
14th century spellings have not been modernised. 'u' was often,
but not always, printed for 'v'
Modern spelling rules did not apply until later in the reign of
Queen Victoria (19th century).
Many strange spellings of personal and place names have been
explained by the author in the Footnotes.
This book has many Footnotes, and the Footnotes have been placed
at the ends of their relevant Chapters.
Some missing or damaged punctuation has been repaired, though
punctuation was not always present.
Some Greek and Latin typos have been corrected.
Some illustrations which interrupted paragraphs have been moved to
more appropriate places. There are also some small 'glyphs' or
small drawings at the ends of some chapters, which have been
placed after the footnotes for the relevant chapters, thus
following the layout of the book.
Some illustrations have been re-used. One illustration has been
used multiple times. This was common practice with Chap Book
woodcuts, which would have been hand-carved.
Page xv: The inscription has a character which looks like a reversed
capital C, shown as [C], but which is actually a ROMAN NUMERAL
REVERSED ONE HUNDRED (U+2183).
The date of the inscription is given as CI[C]CCLXXXI,
i.e. hundreds, ten, (1000)
plus 200 plus 81,
or the year 1281.
Page 2: catell[5] = chattel ('goods and chattels').
Pages 5-6: Footnotes #5 and #9 each have 1 answer for 2 queries.
Page 42: 'Araham's' corrected to 'Abraham's'
(Not corrected in a Footnote).
"And two myle from Ebron is the grave of Loth[6] that was Abraham's
brother." (F. 6: Lot.)
Page 47: 'is' corrected to 'it'.
"... and that it was forbidden in the olde lawe."
Page 53. "... and thereby are three[15] other pyllers...."
Footnote 15: [Other editions say four, which is the number
represented in the engraving.] So this edition would appear to be
correct, as one pillar, plus three other pillars = four pillars.
Page 54: 'me' corrected to (second) 'men'. (original printer error?
or original author's careless style?)
"... as these landes are lost through sinne of Christen men, so
shall they be won againe by christen men throygh the helpe of God."
Page 58: "... they encline[1] thereto & and then they take it, and
laye it upon their heads, and afterward...."
Either '&' or 'and' is extraneous. For consistency, transcriber
removed '&'.
Page 84: Footnote #4 has 1 answer for 2 queries.
Page 91, Footnote 7: 'Khalif Molawakkel' corrected to
Khalif Motawakkel (i.e. Al-Mutawakkil) ...
(https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mutawakkil).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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