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The Egerton version of Mandeville's travels / edited by M.C. Seymour.
LIBRA PR1119 .A2 no.336
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mandeville, John, Sir
- Series:
- Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 336.
- Early English Text Society ; no. 336
- Standardized Title:
- Itinerarium. English (Middle English)
- Language:
- English
- English, Middle (1100-1500)
- Subjects (All):
- Mandeville, John, Sir--Travel.
- Mandeville, John.
- Mandeville, John, Sir.
- Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travel.
- Palestine--Description and travel.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 230 pages : 2 facsimiles ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Mandeville's travels
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- Text in Middle English; introduction and commentary in modern English.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Egerton Version
- Commentary
- Textual commentary
- Glossary
- Index of persons and peoples
- Index of places.
- Notes:
- "... the Egerton Version, extant in a unique manuscript written c.1400, is a conflation of a lost manuscript of the Defective Version and a lost ME translation of an Anglo-Latin translation known as the Royal Version ..."--P. [xi].
- "The Egerton Version was edited by [George F.] Warner for the Roxburghe Club in 1889"--P. [xi].
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- The chapter headings of the Egerton Version are given as follows: 1. Prologue -- 2. A way to Ierusalem -- 3. A[y]en to þe way fro Constantynople -- 4. A wey lengere on þe see to Ierusalem -- 5. Þe way to Babiloyne fro Gaza -- 6. A wey to Ierusalem -- 7. Ierusalem -- 8. Þe castel of Carras and oþere -- 9. A way fro Galile to Ierusalem þur[y] Damas -- 10. Þe schorteste weye to Ierusalem -- 11. Anoþer wey to Ierusalem -- 12. A wey al bi londe to Ierusalem -- 13. Trewþe of þe Sarasyns -- 14. Dyuersitez of folk and of cuntres -- 15. Þe land of Ynde -- 16. Þe lond of Mancy -- 17. Þe lond of þe Grete Chane of Catay -- 18. Why he is yclepid þe Greete Chan -- 19. Araye of þe court of þe Grete Chan of Catay -- 20. Þe lond of Perse -- 21. Þe lond of Caldilhe -- 22. Þe lond of Prestre Ioon -- 23. Aray of þe court of Prestre Ioon -- 24. Whi he is yclepid Prestre Ioon.
- Contains:
- British Library. Manuscript. Egerton 1982
- ISBN:
- 9780199591060
- 0199591067
- OCLC:
- 648772630
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