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
Page 94: "... or else at Lamaton, And then enter shyppe againe,..."
is as printed, and it does make sense, in the context.
Page 110, Footnote 5: There are two Footnotes #5 and one Footnote
reference #5, all matching original, but they _are_ connected.
Page 120, Footnote 1: 'Monscoli' corrected to 'Monocoli'
"For instance, in Book 7, chap, li., devoted to Man, he (Plini)
quotes Ctesias as saying that in India is another race of men,
who are known as Monocoli, who have only one leg, but are able to
leap with surprising agility."
Page 152: Illustration removed: duplicate of illo on previous page.
Page 157, Footnote 1(cont): first letter 'tau' corrected to first
letter 'sigma' [Greek: 'tpithami' should be 'spithamai'], 'span'.
Page 162: Removed extraneous 'his'
"and the cause was we had so great desire to see the nobilitye of
his [his] court,..."
Page 167: 'coulentium' ... perhaps 'colentium'? 'coulentium' may
be an acceptable medieval spelling.
Page 167, Footnote 1: Ok-lar-Khan ... or Oktaï-Khan.
But some 19th century books give the name as Oktar, and there are
other possibilities.
Page 187, Footnote 6: Removed extraneous "on".
Silver Hoop about the end, whereon [on] is engraven _Griphi
Unguis_....
Page 206: 'if' correct as printed.
Middle English "All if" = "even though":
"even though the carbuncles give great light, nevertheless ...".
Page 233: Removed extraneous 'are'.
"In this countrey also are [are] found canes of an incredible
length,..."
Page 243, Footnote 1: 'Fokieu' corrected to 'Fokien' (typo).
Pages 277-289: The extra spaces in the book's layout have been
retained, as necessary to show the library cataloguing.
Page 277: 'chlr' is as printed. Abbreviation for chevalier (knight).
Grenville XXXIX. A 14 Cent. MS. fol. on vellum in double
columns,...
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."
Pages 280 et seq: GRENVILLE
GRENVILLE, Thomas [1755-1846]. 'The Grenville Library'. Scope:
Approximately 16,000 works (in 20,240 volumes) collected by the
statesman and British Museum Trustee Thomas Grenville. The
collection contains printed books from the 15th to 19th centuries,
and complements the King's Library in terms of incunabula and
post-incunabula, early voyages, bibles, vernacular poetry and
romances (especially Italian and Spanish), and English literature.
The collection is particularly noted for its fine bindings.
Bequeathed to the Museum in 1846. Although part of the Grenville
Library, the volumes at G.20276-78 were absent from the collection
when it arrived at the British Museum. They were subsequently
acquired though the book trade by either the British Museum or the
British Library.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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