Research Catalog

Title

The Bodley version of Mandeville's travels / From Bodleian MS. e Musaeo 116 with parallel extracts from the Latin text of British Museum MS. Royal 13 E. IX. Edited by M.C. Seymour.

Author

Mandeville, John, Sir.

Publication

London, New York : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1963.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-approximately 1399.
• Seymour, Maurice Charles.

Description

xx, 188 pages : facsimiles; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Early English Text Society, no. 253

Uniform Title

Early English Text Society (Series) ; no. 253.

Subject

Voyages and travels > Early works to 1800

Note

• Sometimes attributed to Jean d'Outremeuse.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references included in "Commentary" (p. [149]-176).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

• Introduction. The affiliation of the manuscripts -- The date of the Bodley Version -- The origin of the Bodley Version -- The origin of the Latin text -- A description of the manuscripts of the Bodley Verson -- A description of the manuscripts of the Latin text -- The texts -- The language of MS. e Musaeo 116.
• Itinerarium Iohannis Maundeville.
• Mandeville's travels--the Bodely Version. Prologue -- The way to Constantinople -- The cross and the crown -- Constantinople and the Greek faith -- The lady of Lango -- Cairo and the sultans -- Egypt -- From Cairo to Mount Sinai/ The monastery of St. Catherine -- The desert/ The dry tree/ Bethlehem -- Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre -- The temple at Jerusalem -- The dead sea -- Galilee/ The Christian sects -- Mahomet and the Koran -- Armenia/ The legend of the sparrowhawk -- The land of the Amazons/ Diamonds -- Ethiopia and India -- St. Thomas -- Strange customs in Ethiopia -- Prester John -- The valley perilous -- The virtuous heathen and Alexander the Great -- The gold-digging ants -- The great Khan and his court -- The history of the Khans -- Heathen peoples and their customs.

Call Number

NCE (Early English Text Society. [Original series] no. 253)

LCCN

64001706

OCLC

325971

Author

Mandeville, John, Sir.

Title

The Bodley version of Mandeville's travels / From Bodleian MS. e Musaeo 116 with parallel extracts from the Latin text of British Museum MS. Royal 13 E. IX. Edited by M.C. Seymour.

Imprint

London, New York : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1963.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early English Text Society, no. 253

Early English Text Society (Series) ; no. 253.

Bibliography

Bibliographical references included in "Commentary" (p. [149]-176).

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Added Author

Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-approximately 1399.

Seymour, Maurice Charles.

Other Form:

Online version: Mandeville, John, Sir. Bodley version of Mandeville's travels. London, New York, Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1963 (OCoLC)602846631

Research Call Number

NCE (Early English Text Society. [Original series] no. 253)