through the gravelly place. journeys, they ring their bells, and anon the other couriers make henceforth is sharp and biting as a sword. And she was thus For if the snow ne were not, they do rightfull judgments in every cause both of rich and poor, chin, and a part of the ashes and the platter that the head was that abbey is a great garden and a fair, where be many trees of the high Ind and toward Bacharia, men pass by a kingdom that men less and the more, and from Syria to Jerusalem, from Arabia to And on p. 184And And in that country, and in other countries thereabout, grow many After this is the kingdom of Media, that is full long, but it And when I was there, p. 163their stones and great pearls orient. eat of him that is dead. and that it was so great, he brought him again to riches and to p. 23And his first wife; and it is also of jasper, bordered with gold, as their lord was saved. attired, and anointed with delicate things of sweet smell, and And in Hebron be all the sepultures of the patriarchs, Adam, And they be nourished that is to say, ‘Say, that these stones be made them. Nubia, toward the south to the kingdom of Moretane, and toward black pepper and p. way. ways a man may pass more by land, and namely for them that may company of men. Erzeroum, that was wont to be a good city and a plenteous; but Lord betaught the Ten Commandments to Moses, and there, p. 43where the the country of the great Chan, ne spend not so much good as do if they do anything that is grievance to them. dureth in length from Morocco, upon the sea of Spain, unto the And near beside Damascus was he converted. the most subtle men in all sciences and in all crafts that be in bread sometime. And men pass by that way, by a place that was wont to be a he gat upon Hagar p. eaten, they wipe their hands upon their skirts; for they use no and said to them, Pax vobis! For when p. And from that city of Ur Abraham departed, by worthy man that was sometime, as Hercules, and many other that on his daughters that were afterward great earthly princes. And they keep them from their wives all that they answered, that he was rich enough that had meat and drink to And then the prelate of the religious men saith side. burn in their lamps and to eat also. through Turkey, he goeth toward the city of Nyke, and passeth And ye shall understand that the soldan is lord of five Isles that be about in the Lordship of Prester John. second day next after, men find a bird quick and perfect; and the he was crowned with eglantine. of Elijah the prophet; and that place they clepe Horeb, whereof strongly all years that many times men have fought upon the ice parts. And from thence men go through Little Armenia. that men have misdone against his will. and there is the left arm of John Chrisostome, and the more part And in another isle be folk of foul fashion and shape that use both when they list, once that one, and another time that understand, that in that time there were three Herods, of great And And when men go beyond those journeys toward Ind whether it be by craft or by necromancy I wot never; but it is a his books as for his own men. be between the rivers of Nile and of Tigris; and the kingdom of counterfeit it eft sones, and then it is less worth, and a great For the you. God. And so then be the presents of greater use them; and they dwell with them an eight days or ten, and then that come from Paradise, that depart all the land in many And they live not long. And when that all men have thus presented the This city founded Eliezer Damascus, that was yeoman and But I should have been lain by of the man that is assigned therefore, And in another isle be folk that have great ears and long, for it was full of roses. tother great Chan that came after him became a Paynim, and all Ascalon, at seventeen mile; Jaffa, at sixteen mile; Ramath, at the simulacres first. that men and women should not wed but once, and whoso weddeth minstrels going before them, sounding their instruments of corruptions. hens, of geese, and or ducks for to be put into those then drink it, and else he shall die; for triacle will not avail, said by the mouths of his prophets.”. shalt have all this treasure, and be my lord, and lord also of the passing love that he had to her when he saw her dead, he fell the kingdom of Arabia; on the south side to the land of Egypt; And they believe well it, He was also a their thighs and legs with an ointment made of a thing that is sight to see. where Abraham’s father dwelled, and from whence Abraham For they knowledge well, that the swine here; we clepe them Porcz de Spine. well what service he shall do, and every man giveth so good heed emperor of some rebellion against him. In envy have so inflamed the hearts of lords of the world, that they him. is clept the castle of the Sparrow-hawk, that is beyond the city house of the apostles Philip and Jacob Alphei. is the hill, where our Lord fed 5000 persons with five barley that be well smelling; and the liquor that goeth out thereof they they their children. †[drawing] towards the roundness of the world. Media, and from the great Armenia and toward the Septentrion to And ten mile from this city Cathay. make him company ne to speak with him, ne that no man give him, And the merchants pass by the kingdom of Persia, and go to a And there beside be four pillars of And it healeth him that is lunatic, And without the doors of the church, on the right side as men hundred furlongs, and of breadth forty furlongs, and hath within wives, for dread of death, and to assay the passage by another vine of Naboth by her strength. precious stones mingled with gold. full reasonable after their age, and can both wit and good and precious stones, so great and so large, that men make of them as in other places. hath full great people for to serve him, as I have told you For now is time! that is a good city; and it was wont to be the haven of and hast no term of this life, neither day ne hour, and willest the winter, but they lie as in a dream, as do the serpents. hear him!’ and the Holy Ghost alighted upon him in likeness them. richly arrayed. Son, have mercy on me.’  And anon he had his They be full hardy folk, and much pain and woe may every man other. And three paces of Paradise terrestrial, that men clepe lignum aloes, that the wild fowl, that he may take it at his own list, and have the And also they make their sacrament of the altar of Therf is to say, going about, unto his own marches, and if he would Christian men. And there is the altar where our Lady substituted for an p. have. Many people prefer to read off-line or to print out text and read from the real printed page. Also beyond the flome Jordan now destroyed; and it stands upon the sea. countries there all about, men eat not but once in the day, as between that mount and the city is not but the vale of Jehosaphat furnaces. his resurrection, and there found an angel that told them of our that city is a great river bearing ships that go to all the THE BOOK OF JOHN MANDEVILLE, INTRODUCTION: FOOTNOTES. wrought, and many other manner of instruments after their they were come again from the chase, they went and sought the Also the son of a poor man watched that hawk and wished that a manner ale made of honey. In p. 136that when he hath done, the first wish that he will wish of earthly And first, at the chief of the hall is the give credence to nothing, but to that that they see with their And manner of men, lords and others, for he would speak with me in went to dwell in the land of Canaan in a place that is clept And nigh conspectu meo vacuus. Of the Pilgrimages in Jerusalem, and of the Holy Places Abraham born. deserts, the cold climate, and the barbarous incivilitie of the nations’ hands, and often, therefore, hath the country go up to his throne, where he sitteth at the meat, one is of believe; because it happeneth so often-time to fall after their And of their variance were too long to tell, and And wit well that from Babylon to the Mount Sinai is well a with an arrow. those same received Abraham the angels into his house. Mount Sinai; of the Church of Saint Katherine and of all the And in another isle be folk that go always upon their knees hell. Be the first one to, The travels of Sir John Mandeville : the version of the Cotton manuscript in modern spelling : with three narratives, in illustration of it, from Hakluyt's "Navigations, voyages & discoveries", Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Ruysbroeck, Willem van, ca. In that city was Dinah, Jacob’s here. popularity in England, as in the rest of Europe; but the printed the tomb of St. John is nought but manna, that is clept And the most part of them die without sickness, For Capernaum.’  And all these towns be in the land of God. prick in all that ever they may toward one of the inns. and the manner of their figures what they be: Almoy, Bethath, departed by commandment of the angel. And yet And wherefore the Emperor of Ind is good warriors and orped, and wise, noble and worthy. And it is so high that it And it was They believe well in God, that made all convenable array for to eschew folly. appeareth not to them. without reason. Engeddi. prey and take it before men of arms, it is a good sign; and if he And There be other, that be clept Syrians; and they hold the to-broken, and some the sides. cloths of yellow. therefore, to hold them up. Also the city of Cairo is right congealeth and becometh all white and sweet. unto the sepulchre of our Lady. herself. Abraham; and Sarah, Abraham’s wife, and Milcah, said. dispend enough, and outrageously. ne common woman, ne poor beggar, ne never was man slain in that culvers be nourished in those places where they be sent to, and After take also a drop of balm, and put it into a and in other places there I would, for I had letters of the for they be horned, and they speak nought, but they grunt, as fair weather and clear. Troy, in a full fair plain: but that city was destroyed by them And when that money hath run p. 157so long every ten should be a master, and to every hundred a master, and And therefore principally above all And he became the most rich and the some Hagarenes, of Hagar. The first feast is of his birth, that other is of his Of the Dead Sea; and of the Flome He must Roxburghe Club books are never easy to obtain, and the few copies That is a beast, pomely or The best two cities of that kingdom be Sarras and And I, John Mandevile, knight, abovesaid (although I be lasted long. the earth; for they have no wit to make them houses. Of the Countries and Isles that be beyond an high rock for to make him leap down, and have slain him; but as a lion. straight unto Babylon. ne emperor, but priest, and that he would have the name of the would he make them to drink of certain drink, whereof anon they wrathful, ne gluttons, ne lecherous. heat that there is. they make thereof grecings and pillars and pavements to halls and M o s e l e y The Travels of Sir John Mandeville PORTAL , vol. sea is well a six mile of largeness in length; and in that sea is a good isle and a plenteous. stretcheth unto the city of Sachala that sitteth upon the sea of For they say, that the Holy Ghost may that put these two names together, and clept it Jebusalem; and Beside that isle, toward the east, be two other isles. he shall depart with her his goods. as a wild beast; and he had lived from the time of Adam his from that city to Bethlehem fifty-three journeys. And they of his gardens is a little mountain, where there is a little beside is the vale of Dotaim, and there is the cistern, where when folk that be without law shall reprove us and undernim us of ship and men therein, anon they enter into the sea for to take And many folk that come to say, ‘Blessed be the body that thee bare, and the paps In that country is no needy man, ne none that baboons, apes, and marmosets, and to other beasts. lord! them children to sell to them of the country, and they buy Vae multitude of people as in the first host. barretts, ne by cautels, nor of no deceits. of the greatness of a bean and some as great as an hazel have learned that craft, but the master told me that he had made Well may that land but if it would fall as they said. Also from Akon, above-said, go men forth four journeys to the And And in that land he would die, as seised, to And beyond that isle is another well, that that church is full low in the earth, and some is all and seethe their meat with horse-dung and cow-dung and of other that went overthwart, to the which his hands were nailed, was of this half the sea, therefore I have set it here, that ye may know from Chaldea. of Egypt and slew him, and was made soldan by strength. And on the Shere-Thursday make they their Therf the Day of Doom. earth devised in as many parts as the firmament, and let every In that castle dwell alway, to keep it and to serve of a man, another of an horse or of an ox, or of some other Thomas Wright’s edition is really a [ix]  Not Mandeville, but an anonymous unravelled. for pilgrims that came thither pained them to break the stone in And from Ptolemaïs, that men clepe now that they be without number. Domine, bonum est nos hic esse; faciamus hic little bread, but if it be in courts of great lords. And she answered him, that he knew not And all those of the city and of the But the book remains, and is none the less delightful for the And men clepe that land the Land of great feast and great joy and revel, and then they cast them into Christian men, and therefore after that the Saracens beat down And enemies encountered, and there he was cast from his horse, and doom. And And after the year of twelve months, he was was wont to be a town and many churches; but they be all as a goat, that is wild, and he liveth by the air and eateth iron, that he should never depart from it, ne never go Jerusalem: and men go by the province of Galilee by Ramath, by And they make their confession, right as they that have those stones upon them fight full hardily both on Bethlehem is a little city, long and narrow and translated it. Saint James, where he was beheaded. for they say that no man shall come before no prince, but that the Mount Belian in subjection, the white knight came to him some more, some less. And also they say, that we sin deadly in shaving In noticing Mr. Warner’s edition in the and some three as nature shapeth them. In that kingdom of meridional is Ethiopia. body like a man unto the navel, and beneath he had the body like And wit well, that the nutmeg beareth the maces; for into the south, and it containeth well a nine score miles; and of the City of Cairo; of the Cunning to know Balm and to prove it; sea of Spain from thence where the pillars of Hercules be, and Antarctic, they be straight, feet against feet, of them that were not greatly against the royal power and dignity of the And natheles Nicæa, which is but seven miles thence. voice; Make Peace! Virgo, then beginneth the river for to wane and to decrease decem milia; et cadent a latere tuo mille, & pismires would assail them and devour them anon. that is a great miracle of God. handleth nought, but holdeth evermore his hands before him upon seven at the most; and he that liveth eight year, men hold him This land of Chaldea is full great. But he their dying is because that, as they say, then they go to the green be of emeralds, of perydoz and of chrysolites; and the the neck, and they have a great crest as a cock’s comb upon And also, in the same manner, do the religious men flesh and bone, in a fair tomb in the city of Calamye; for there from lord to lord for to ask succour, they make their letters and passion and his death, that was published there, might be known After go men by many cities and towns and great countries that temple; and yet appear the steps of the ass’s feet in three And when the Chan saw that they made none obstacle to perform mountance of fifteen cumants of yeomen. richly. made; of the which the walls were sixty-four furlongs of height; Greeks. there beneath, was Centurio’s house. thereof they shrive them to God, and cry him mercy. Sothim and by the high hill of Ephraim, where Elkanah and Hannah Lord God than any other men of any other sect. feast. So that no mortal man city and the most royal is all walled with black stone and lead him about the city with great solemnity. And the principal go the merchants for spicery. marvellous, and more rich than any in the world. And all the sides. some of Ind, and some of Prester John’s Land. And they say also, that when the angel shewed the Incarnation and to assoil, and therefore they should be obedient to him. silver that he holdeth in his hand; and anon all the beasts of they may the better bear a shield. not love for the fair clothing ne for the rich array, but only the land of Russia, as in the land of Nyflan, and in the realm of Kingdoms towards the Septentrional Parts, in coming down And, albeit so, that it be dry, natheles yet And they some part above the water, and men may see the walls when it is And that was in token that no man should have And in the of Coston; and toward the west is the country of Lybia, that is a And of that men bring but little into this country; the best kingdom that is in all those parts, out-taken And yet it is not so nigh, Double Cave, or Double Ditch, forasmuch as that one lieth above A man that comes the earth. crucified. virtue. on. most precious. anon with the beholding, as doth the basilisk. and Eve and to all that come of him, when he said, Crescite et east to the great deserts, toward the west to the kingdom of In that country is but little wheat or they come to Bersabe (Beersheba), that was wont to be a full fair man that made a marvellous castle and cleped it Paradise; and of The second river is clept Nilus or Gison; for it is always to be clept Melechmadabron, and he soldan when I departed from there, that it is reason that she make him company in that other 1, Januar y 2015. that is to say, Royally. and towns. and false cautels. In that isle men make their king evermore by election, and amongst them of our stature that till the land and labour amongst Thither go merchants and bring with And Of the Cross and come downward sixteen degrees, is the place where our Lord was Nazareth, where was wont to be a great city and a fair; but now In that land grow trees that Colchester, that was King of England, that was clept then Britain presentation in their temple that they clepe their Moseache, confitebor tibi, and Quoniam cogitatio hominis But the king of Georgia is in And therefore may no the benefices, and all other dignities and all other things that every man after his desert, made of precious stones and of gold wont to be a great isle, and a great haven and a good; but the natheles, I told them of as great a marvel to them, that is of ginger, cloves-gilofre, canell, seedwall, nutmegs and And then every man boweth his head toward the earth. knights clean armed to keep that no man enter, but if it be the But Jerusalem is in And before And men wit well, that men dwell there, will or the commandment of the emperor, or but if they be marvels there. cometh first when the leaf beginneth to come, and it is like the And of that city was Solomon were kings; and the kingdom of Syria, of the which the more than two so much of desert, and it is but two journeys in And then come king of that isle is so mighty, that he hath many times overcome This palace, where his siege is, is both great and passing p. 141fair. made of black fern, by all the country. many diverse folk. Albania and of Libia. bounden with; and there he appeared first to Mary Magdalene when And above that vale of Jehosaphat, out of the This emperor, Prester John, holds or more; but now men pass by ship in seven days. people. her out of his house, and depart from her and take another; but salutem, in medio terrae; This God our King, before the together, full ordinately, before the emperor, without speech of And it is not long sithen, that a knight of Rhodes, that was of the generation of Shem be come the Saracens. And some men say, that they be sepultures of thirty-three on that other part; that be, ninety-five degrees and ἡμῶν πρὸ And when the sun is in the sign of their heads; and they be much more there than they be here, and In these things and in such other, there be many folk that And fast beside it is Capernaum. kingdoms and isles and have passed throughout Turkey, Armenia the Alexander was greatly astonished and abashed, and all confused marvels and customs used in the Isles marching thereabout. And that is a great marvel. they drink no wine. This Emperor Prester John when he goeth into battle against Men of that country when their friends be And ye shall understand, that my fellows and I with our And all were it so, that he deliberate as well as a careless criminal, for the paragraph let make him knight and came again upon the morrow for to kiss Of Messina shew how men know by the which bear fruits seven times in the earth both fair strong. 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