| Description | Leather bound volume, 15x11x4 cms., described by Henry Guppy, Librarian of John Rylands Library in an enclosed note to Canon Hicks, 27 July 1908, as follows : "a collection of early travels and geographical descriptions of various parts of the world including the Holy Land, principally by Brocardus, a Dominican of the 13th century, and Aeneas Sylvius. The contents have all been printed in one form or another. This collection seems to have been made by one hand in the early part of the 16th century but whether they are copied from
manuscripts or from the early printed editions I have not been able to determine from the authorities at my disposal. The hand was undoubtedly a German hand. The binding is contemporary with the contents and is German. The stamps are almost identical with some used by one of the Strassburg printers at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century."
The manuscript is written entirely on paper, apart from one table of tribes of Israel written on parchment and folded between ff. lxxix and lxxx of the contemporary foliation. The "end papers" together with two additional flyleaves at the front are parchment, but they do not bear ·any of the original MS. |