Grenville XXXIX. A 14 Cent. MS. fol. on vellum in double columns,...
It commences "Ci comence le liure qui parle des diuersités des pais qui sunt par universe monde:
le quel liure fut compile par mesire Jehan Mandeuille chlr ne dangleterre de la uille con dit Saint Albain."
Pages 280 et seq: GRENVILLE
GRENVILLE, Thomas [1755-1846]. 'The Grenville Library'. Scope: Approximately 16,000 works (in 20,240 volumes) collected by the statesman and British Museum Trustee Thomas Grenville. The collection contains printed books from the 15th to 19th centuries, and complements the King's Library in terms of incunabula and post-incunabula, early voyages, bibles, vernacular poetry and romances (especially Italian and Spanish), and English literature. The collection is particularly noted for its fine bindings. Bequeathed to the Museum in 1846. Although part of the Grenville Library, the volumes at G.20276-78 were absent from the collection when it arrived at the British Museum. They were subsequently acquired though the book trade by either the British Museum or the British Library.
Page 281: 'zii' corrected to 'zü'. 'zu' may have been better, but 'zü' is used in the entry above, 'Gedrucht zü Augspurg' and now used here, 'Getruckt zü Strassburg', to match. The entries are from 1482 and 1484, when spelling was more or less invented to suit the writer's personal preferences.
Another copy has 'Gedruckt zů Augspurg....'
Page 284-5: 'unnd' (as printed) is common in 16th century German.