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F. 1 _recto_: Dit is die tafel van // desen boecke // (D)at eerste capittel van // desen boeck is Hoe dat Jan va//mandauille schyet wt enghe//lat.... f. 108 v 26th line: regneert in allen tiden // Amen // -- _Laus deo in altissimo_ //.

See Campbell, supra, p. 599.

[16] F. 1 _verso_: Tractato de le piu marauegliose cosse e piu notabile che // se trouano in le parte del modo redute & collecte soto bre//uita in el presente copedio dal strenuissimo caualer spero // doro Johanne de Mandauilla anglico nato ne la Cita // de sancto albano el quale secodo dio prncialmente uisi // tato quali tute le parte habitabel de el modo cossi fidelm // te a notato tute quelle piu degne cosse che la trouato e ve//duto in esse parte & chi bene discorre qsto libro auerra p // fecta cognitione de tuti li reami puincie natione e popu//li gente costumi leze hystorie & degne antiquitate co bre//uitade le quale pte da altri non sono tractate & parte piu // cosusamete dalchu gran ualente homini son state tocate & amagiore fede el psato auctore in psona e stato nel 1322. in//yerusalem Jn Asia menore chiamata Turchia i Arme//nia grande e in la picola. Jn Scythia zoe in Tartaria in // persia Jn Syria o uero suria Jn Arabia in egipto alto // & in lo inferiore in libia in la parte grande de ethiopia in // Caldea in amazonia in india mazore in la meza & in la // menore in div'se sette de latini greci iudei e barbari chri//stiani & infideli & i molte altre prouincie como appare nel // tractato de sotto.--_Ends_ f. 114 _verso_: Explicit Johannes d'Madeuilla impressus Medio//lani ductu & auspicijs Magistri Petri de corneno pre // die Callendas augusti M.CCCCLx.x.x. Joha//ne Galeazo Maria Sfortia Vicecomitte Duce no // stro inuictissimo ac principe Jucondissimo. Small 4to; ff. 114; sig. _a-o_ 8 = 112 ff.; 1 f. between _a_ and _b_.

[17] _Gesta Pont. Leodiensium_.--Vita Radvlphi de Rivo ex eius scriptis: ”Obijt Radulphus anno, 1483.”

[18] This pa.s.sage is not to be found in the Egerton MS. 1982, nor in the Latin versions.

[19] _Bib. Untersuchungen_.

[20] Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Worterbuche unter Mitwirkung von Karl Goldbeck herausgegeben von Eduard Matzner. Erster Band: Sprachproben. Zweite Abtheilung: Prosa. Berlin. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. (Vol. i. 1869, large 8vo, pp. 415; vol. i., _John Maundeville_, pp. 152-221.)

[21] _Encyclopaedia. Brit._, p. 475.

[22] _Nat. Biog._ p. 23-24.

[23] _The Academy_, x. p. 477.--_Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 9th ed., XV., p. 475.

[24] The // Voiage // and // Travaile // of // Sir John Maundevile, kt.

// Which Treateth of the // Way to Hierusalem; and of // Marvayles of Inde, // With other // Ilands and Countryes. //--Now publish'd entire from an Original MS. // in the Cotton Library. //--London: // Printed for J. Woodman, and D. Lyon, in // Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, and C. Davis, // in Hatton-Garden. 1725, 8vo, 5. ff. n.

c.+pp. xvi.--384+4 ff. n. c.

[25] The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight which treateth of the way towards Hierosallun and of marvayles of Inde with other ilands and countreys. Edited, Annotated, and Ill.u.s.trated in Facsimile by John Ashton.... London, Pickering & Chatto, 1887, large 8vo., pp.

xxiv.-289.

[26] L.c. p. vi.

[27] The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. which treateth of the way to Hierusalem; and of Marvayles of Inde, with other ilands and countryes. Reprinted from the Edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and Glossary. By J.O. Halliwell.

Esq., F.S.A., F.R.A.S. London: Published by Edward Lumley, M.D.CCC.x.x.xIX., 8vo, pp. xvii.-xii.-326.

The Voiage and Travaille of Sir John Maundevile ... By J.O.

Halliwell, London: F.S. Ellis, MDCCCLXVI., 8vo, pp x.x.xi.-326.

[28] The Buke of John Maundeuill being the Travels of sir John Mandeville, knight 1322-1356 a hitherto unpublished English version from the unique copy (Egerton Ms. 1982) in the British Museum edited together with the French text, notes, and an introduction by George F. Warner, M.A., F.S.A., a.s.sistant-keeper of Ma.n.u.scripts in the British Museum.

Ill.u.s.trated with twenty-eight miniatures reproduced in facsimile from the additional MS. 24,189. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Westminster, Nichols and Sons.... MDCCCLx.x.xIX., large 4to, pp.

xlvi.+232+28 miniatures.

[29] There are in the British Museum twenty-nine MSS. of Mandeville, of which ten are French, nine English, six Latin, three German, and one Irish. Cf. _Warner_, p. x.

[30] Cf. _Warner_, p. 61.

[31] Mayence, Chapter's Library: ”Incipit Itinerarius fidelis Fratris ODERICI, _socii Militis Mendavil_, per Indiam.”--Wolfenb.u.t.tel, Ducal Library, No. 40, Weissemburg: ”Incipit itinerarius fratris ODERICI socii militis Mandauil per Indiam.”--HENRI CORDIER, _Odoric de Pordenone_, p. lxxii. and p. lxxv.

[32] _Purchas, His Pilgrimes_, 3rd Pt., London, 1625: ”and, O that it were possible to doe as much for our Countriman Mandeuil, who next (if next) was the greatest Asian Traueller that euer the World had, & hauing falne amongst theeues, neither Priest, nor Leuite can know him, neither haue we hope of a Samaritan to releeue him.”

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