World’s first travel guide goes on display

 Illustration of Jerusalem by Erhard Reuwich
in Bernhard von Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam.
Photograph: British Museum

The world’s earliest example of a travel guide goes on display later this week as part of the exhibition Inspired by the east: how the Islamic world influenced western art. The 500-year-old book was written by Bernhard von Breydenbach in 1486, following his pilgrimage to the Holy Land from 1483-1484, and features illustrations of Venice and Jerusalem made by the Dutch artist Erhard Reuwich, who travelled with the writer.

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