Title

Des sainctes peregrinations

Full title

Des sainctes peregrinations de iherusalem et des avirons et des lieux prochains. Du mont de synay et la glorieuse Katherine

Short Title

Des sainctes peregrinations

Title in English

The holy pilgrimages

Printer

Michelet Topié and Jacques Herenberck

Released place

Lyon

Released date

1488

Author

Bernhard von Breydenbach

Language

854

Qur'an

Qur'anic quotations

Qur'an structure

Suras

(93:6-8)

Pages

Further notes

Sources

Petrus Alfonsi via Vincent de Beauvais' Speculum Historiale (XXIV, 39 sq.)

Arabic Type

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references:

Individuals

Bernhard von Breydenbach (Author); Nicole Le Huen (Translator)

Descriptive card

First French edition of Bernhard von Breydenbach's Opusculum sanctarum peregrinationum, realised by Nicole Le Huen and dedicated to the Queen Marguerite. For this edition, Erhard Reuwich's wood engravings have been copied on copper plates: Le Huen's work is the first French incunabulum illustrated with copper engravings.

Entry author

Maurizio Busca