BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von (d.1497). Peregrinatio in terram sanctam [Spanish:] Viaje dela tierra sancta . Translated and with additions by Martin Martinez de Ampies. -- Martin MARTINEZ DE AMPIES. Tratado de Roma . Zaragoza: Paulus Hurus, 16 January 1498. Chancery 2° (283 x 206mm). Collation: a-e 8 f-g 4 h-i 6 k-q 8 r 6 s-x 8 y 4 z 8 & 6 (a1r xylographic title, a1v allegorical cut of the city of Mainz, a2r translator's dedication to Juan de Aragon, a2v prologue, a4v Tractado de Roma , e8v blank, f1r Peregrinatio , &1r table, &6v blank). 171 (of 205, i4 supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile and lacking all folding views) leaves. 43 lines and headline, double column. Type: 2*:145G; 3:100G; 4:156G. Full-page allegorical woodcut, 64 woodcuts depicting the life of Christ (of 67, 3 supplied in rough facsimile, including full-page crucifixion), and 13 woodcuts with narrow borders of alphabets or scenes of the Near East, woodcut of the Holy Sepulchre, woodcut of animals, and woodcut initials, some cuts touched with yellow. (First and last leaves repaired, a few marginal wormholes repaired, occasional light spotting, very small hole in k8 affecting 2 woodcuts, tear into text in b3 repaired without loss.) Early 20th-century blue-green morocco blindstamped in antique style (spine faded), red edges, by V. Arias, with his stamp on front free endpaper. Provenance : Charles William Dyson Perrins (bookplate). FIRST AND ONLY INCUNABLE EDITION IN SPANISH, reprinting for the last time the original blocks used in the first edition printed by Reuwich at Mainz in 1486. Surrounding most of those woodcuts are narrow borders of characteristically Spanish decoration. The Peregrinatio is joined by the FIRST EDITION of another pilgrimage account, the Tratado de Roma by Martin Martinez de Ampies, which describes the city of Rome, the regions of Italy, the emperors and Popes. It is largely a compilation drawn from the Mirabilia Romae and Mirabilia Historia et Descriptio Urbis Romae , popular works of the 15th century which were, however, unknown in Spanish translation. Martin's Tratado de Roma is thus the first translation into Spanish of large segments of those works, to which he added supplementary material. Accompanying it is a new series of woodcuts. Five of the cuts appeared previously in Mathias Huss's 1486 edition of Jacobus de Voragine, but the remaining cuts are of Spanish origin, and they make their first appearance here. Cf. H.W. Davies, Bernhard von Breydenbach and his Journey to the Holy Land 1483-4 , London: 1911. H 3965; GW 5082; BMC X, 29 (IB. 52154); Goff B-1196; Klebs 220.7; Haebler Bib. Ibérica 75; Vindel(A) IV 255:84; Kurz 77.
BREYDENBACH, Bernhard von (d.1497). Peregrinatio in terram sanctam [Spanish:] Viaje dela tierra sancta . Translated and with additions by Martin Martinez de Ampies. -- Martin MARTINEZ DE AMPIES. Tratado de Roma . Zaragoza: Paulus Hurus, 16 January 1498. Chancery 2° (283 x 206mm). Collation: a-e 8 f-g 4 h-i 6 k-q 8 r 6 s-x 8 y 4 z 8 & 6 (a1r xylographic title, a1v allegorical cut of the city of Mainz, a2r translator's dedication to Juan de Aragon, a2v prologue, a4v Tractado de Roma , e8v blank, f1r Peregrinatio , &1r table, &6v blank). 171 (of 205, i4 supplied in pen-and-ink facsimile and lacking all folding views) leaves. 43 lines and headline, double column. Type: 2*:145G; 3:100G; 4:156G. Full-page allegorical woodcut, 64 woodcuts depicting the life of Christ (of 67, 3 supplied in rough facsimile, including full-page crucifixion), and 13 woodcuts with narrow borders of alphabets or scenes of the Near East, woodcut of the Holy Sepulchre, woodcut of animals, and woodcut initials, some cuts touched with yellow. (First and last leaves repaired, a few marginal wormholes repaired, occasional light spotting, very small hole in k8 affecting 2 woodcuts, tear into text in b3 repaired without loss.) Early 20th-century blue-green morocco blindstamped in antique style (spine faded), red edges, by V. Arias, with his stamp on front free endpaper. Provenance : Charles William Dyson Perrins (bookplate). FIRST AND ONLY INCUNABLE EDITION IN SPANISH, reprinting for the last time the original blocks used in the first edition printed by Reuwich at Mainz in 1486. Surrounding most of those woodcuts are narrow borders of characteristically Spanish decoration. The Peregrinatio is joined by the FIRST EDITION of another pilgrimage account, the Tratado de Roma by Martin Martinez de Ampies, which describes the city of Rome, the regions of Italy, the emperors and Popes. It is largely a compilation drawn from the Mirabilia Romae and Mirabilia Historia et Descriptio Urbis Romae , popular works of the 15th century which were, however, unknown in Spanish translation. Martin's Tratado de Roma is thus the first translation into Spanish of large segments of those works, to which he added supplementary material. Accompanying it is a new series of woodcuts. Five of the cuts appeared previously in Mathias Huss's 1486 edition of Jacobus de Voragine, but the remaining cuts are of Spanish origin, and they make their first appearance here. Cf. H.W. Davies, Bernhard von Breydenbach and his Journey to the Holy Land 1483-4 , London: 1911. H 3965; GW 5082; BMC X, 29 (IB. 52154); Goff B-1196; Klebs 220.7; Haebler Bib. Ibérica 75; Vindel(A) IV 255:84; Kurz 77.
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