A Journey from Venice to Palestine, Mount Sinai, and Egypt c. 1467(bl.uk)

48 pointsby petethomas8 lat temu6 comments

A Journey from Venice to Palestine, Mount Sinai, and Egypt c. 1467

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7667&CollID=28&NStart=1900

7 comments

Does anyone know of an English translation? My German is not that good and the font too old to be able to effortlessly read that.

yorwba8 lat temu

It's 15th century German as well, so it would be quite a challenge to read even if printed in a modern font. At least I could decipher that the animal on page 110v is supposed to be a giraffe (the drawing matches the description and the description matches a real giraffe, but a lot was lost in translation).

https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN....

dmix8 lat temu

That does not look like a giraffe. I wonder what else looks totally different.

anoncake8 lat temu

I guess the illustrator based the image on the description without ever having seen a giraffe. The description starts with "The giraffe looks like a goat...".

maxxxxx8 lat temu

He calls it "giraffel"

anoncake8 lat temu

Even as a German, I find it quite hard to read.

GirlsCanCode8 lat temu