Category: Travel Writing
I HAVE edited, and illustrated "The Voiage and Travayle of Syr John Maundeville, Knight," for two reasons. First, that a popular edition has not been published for many years--so much so, that many otherwise well educated people hardly know his name; or, if they do, have never...
I HAVE edited, and illustrated "The Voiage and Travayle of Syr John Maundeville, Knight," for two reasons. First, that a popular edition has not been published for many years--s...
2. Part 2LXXIV. How the Empyre of the great Caane is departed into 12 provinces and how that they doe cast ensense in the fyre wher y^e great Caane passeth thorough the Cities and townes...
3. Part 3A part of the crowne of our Lord Jesu wherewith he was crowned & one of the nayles, and the speare head and many other reliques are in France at Paris in the chapell of the King...
4. Part 4[Footnote 7: This is not so. The Epistle to the Colossians was addressed to the inhabitants of Colossæ, a city in Phrygia--which is clearly shown by his referring in cap. 4, v....
5. Part 5THE cause is, for as much as a fayre maiden y^t was blamed wyth wrong that she hadde done fornication, for the which cause she was demed[1] to dye and to bee brente[2] in that p...
6. Part 6AND ye shall understande that this is not the temple that Salomon made, for that temple lasted but a thousand, an hundred and two yeare. For Titus, Vespasianus Son, that was Emp...
7. Part 7THIS flom Jordan is no great ryver nor depe, but there is much good fishe therein, and it commeth from mount Lybany from two welles, that men call Jor and Dane and of them it ta...
8. Part 8FOR as muche, as many men may not suffer the savour of the sea, & better it is to go by lande even if it be more payne, and a man shall go to one of the havens of Lumberdy as Ve...
9. Part 9And from thence men go through lyttle Armony,[3] & in that countrey is an olde castell that is on a rock, y^t men call the castell of Spirys, & there men finde an hawke sitting...
10. Part 10FROM this lande men go many journeys to a countrey that men call Mabaron,[1] and this is a greate Kingdome, therein is many fayre cities & townes. In this lande lyeth Sainct Tho...
11. Part 11[Footnote 4: _Pynson_ here has, "and there is plenty of great neddres (_adders_) of whyche they make a greate fest and ete theym at great solemnytees. For, if a man make a great...
12. Part 12AND when this great Caane shall ryde from one countrey to another they ordeyne foure hostes of people, of which the fyrst goeth before a daies journey; for that hoste lyeth at e...
13. Part 13FROM this lande of Bactry men goe many dayes Jorneyes to the lande of Prester John, that is a great Emperour of Inde, and men call his lande the yle of Pantoroze.[1] This Empero...
14. Part 14AND King Alexander sometime sent his men to win that lande, and they sent him letters that sayde thus, What behoveth a man to have all the worlde, that is not content therewitha...
15. Part 15ALBEIT many and sundry things are reported by divers authors concerning the fashions and conditions of this world: notwithstanding I frier Odoricus of Friuli, de portu Vahonis b...
16. Part 16IN this countrey there is one strange thing to be observed, y^t euery several kind of fishes in those seas come swimming towards the said countrey in such abundance, that, for a...
17. Part 17MOREOVER, when the great emperour Can sitteth on his imperiall throne of estate, on his lefte hand sitteth his queene or empresse and upon another inferior seate there sit two o...
18. Part 18I WILL report one thing more, which I saw, concerning the great Can. It is an usuall custome in those parts, that when the foresayd Can traveileth thorow any countrey, his subje...
19. Part 191295, c. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. De wonderlyke Reyse van Ian Mandevyl, naer het H. Land, gedden in 't jaer 1622 (1322) ... Menheeft desen nieuwen Gendsehen Druk...