Part 19

1077, i. 14/23. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. The foreign travels of Sir I. M., &c. (A chap book.) Aldermary Church Yard, Lond. 1750? 12^o.

10,056, aa. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. De wonderlyke Reize van Ian Mandevyl, &c. Amsterdam, 1760. 4^o.

10,055, b. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. De wonderlyke Reize von I. Mandevyl, &c. Amsterdam, 1779. 4^o.

12,315, aaa. 6/3. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. The foreign travels of Sir I. M., &c. London, 1780? 12^o. (A chap book.)

1295, 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 van alle Touten gesuyverd, &c. Gend. 1780? 4^o.

1076, l. 3/12. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. The foreign travels and dangerous voyages of Sir I. M. (A chap book). London, 1785? 12^o.

209, h. II. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. Liber Præsens ... agit de diversis patriis ... & insulis, Turcia, Armenia, &c. Hakluyt's Collection of the early Voyages, &c. Vol. 2. 1809, &c. 4^o.

790, g. 17. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir I. Maundeville ... which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other Islands and Countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725, with an Introduction, Additional Notes, and Glossary, by J. O. Halliwell. Lond. 1839. 8^o.

836, i. 23(I). Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. Bibliographische Untersuchungen über die Reise. Beschreibung des Sir I. M., &c. 1840. 4^o.

2101, a. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. Early Travels in Palestine, comprising the narratives of Arculf, Willibald ... Sir I. Mandeville (the latter entitled The Book of Sir I. M. A.D. 1322-1356), &c.--Bohn's Antiquarian Library, 1847, &c. 8^o.

1007, 6, aa. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. Des edlen engelländischen Ritters ... J. v. Montevilla ... Reis Beschreibung ... von Neueman's Licht gestellt durch O. F. H. Schönhuth.

Reutlingen, 1865. 8^o.

10,075, g. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. The Voiage and Travaile of Sir J. Maundevile ... Reprinted from the edition of 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J. O. Halliwell, &c. Lond. 1866. 8^o.

11,900, bb. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) the _Traveller_. A Translation of a portion of Sir J. M.'s travels. (Irish.) See _Todd_ (J. H.), _D.D._ Some account of the Irish manuscript, &c. 1867. 8^o.

12,226, bbbb. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. I. Viaggi di G da Mandavilla. Volgarizzamento antico Toscano, ora ridotto a buona lezione coll' ainto di due testi a penna per cura di F. Zambrini. 2 vols. Bologna, Imola (printed) 1870. 8^o.

10,027, aaa. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _the Traveller_. The English Explorers, &c.

_Note._ Forming part of "Nimmo's National Library," Lond. Edinburgh (printed), 1875. 8^o.

Ac. 9057. Mandeville (_Sir_ John) _The Traveller_. Mandevilles Rejse, på danok fra 15^{de} århundrede,... udgiven af M. Lorenzen. 1881, &c. 8^o.

[Footnote 1: St. Albans.]

[Footnote 2: This edition has no date, but _Brunet_ says (vol. iii. p. 1359) that it is printed from the same type used by _Gerard Leeu_ at Antwerp in 1484 or 1485. As _Graesse_ also confirms this, I attribute that date to it.]

[Footnote 3: The dated works of Est, Este, East, or Easte range from 1565 to over 1600.]

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Transcriber's Note:

- - indicates italic print; = = indicates bold print; + + indicates Old English font; ^ or ^{} indicates a superscript.

[=] signifies a letter with a macron (straight line over) accent; [~] signifies a letter, or letters, with a tilde over, usually indicating an omitted letter (often 'n'). [°u] is small letter 'u' with ring above.

The spelling of this book is from the 14th Century, is often phonetic, and is not necessarily consistent.

e.g., 'hear' (auditory) is also spelt 'here' and 'heare'; 'here' (location) is also spelt 'heere', 'heare'; 'here' has also been used to spell 'hair'; 'were' is sometimes used for 'where'; 'Jhon' is 'John', etc.

'y^t' usually means 'that', and 'y^e' is 'the'.

'to' is used for 'to' and 'too'; 'by' for 'by' and 'buy'; 'of' for 'of' and 'off'; and 'off' for 'off' and 'of'....

'li' = libre = a pound (both weight and money, depending on context); a groat = 4 pence; a florin = 2 shillings.

A word or name can be spelt several ways in the same paragraph, and names capitalised and non-capitalised in the same sentence.

Apostrophes (of ownership) were sometimes present, sometimes absent, even in the same paragraph.

Also, (e.g.):

'le IIII iour dauril' = 'le IIII jour d'avril' = the 4th day of April; 'natif dangleterre' = 'natif d'angleterre' = 'native of England', etc.

"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).

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.

Page 281: 'zii' corrected to 'zü'. 'zu' may have been better, but 'zü' is used in the entry above, 'Gedrucht zü Augspurg' and now used here, 'Getruckt zü Strassburg', to match. The entries are from 1482 and 1484, when spelling was more or less invented to suit the writer's personal preferences.

Another copy has 'Gedruckt z[°u] Augspurg....'

Page 284-5: 'unnd' (as printed) is common in 16th century German.