Accession number
PML 3432.1
Creator
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547.
Published
Impressa in celebri ciuitate Norimberga [Nuremberg] : Per Fridericum Peypus, Anno D[omi]ni. M.D.XXIIII Quar[tus] No[nas] Mar[tii] [4 March 1524].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Notes
Translated by P. Savorgnanus from Cortes' Carta de relación. Seville, 1522.
Place of publication and publisher from colophon on recto of leaf XLIX (H7r).
Dated on title page: Anno D[omi]ni .M.D.XXIIII. K[a]l[ends] Martii.
In colophon, the printer's name follows the imprint date.
Often found with Tertia Ferdinandi Cortesii ... narratio. Nuremberg, 1524.
The two folded leaves of plates are one woodcut map printed on two facing conjugate leaves.
Errata: verso of xlix.
Includes: De rebus et insulis nouiter repertis a sereniss. Carolo Imperatore, et variis earum gentium moribus / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. Nuremberg, 1524 (leaves i-xii at end).
Place of publication and publisher from colophon on recto of leaf XLIX (H7r).
Dated on title page: Anno D[omi]ni .M.D.XXIIII. K[a]l[ends] Martii.
In colophon, the printer's name follows the imprint date.
Often found with Tertia Ferdinandi Cortesii ... narratio. Nuremberg, 1524.
The two folded leaves of plates are one woodcut map printed on two facing conjugate leaves.
Errata: verso of xlix.
Includes: De rebus et insulis nouiter repertis a sereniss. Carolo Imperatore, et variis earum gentium moribus / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera. Nuremberg, 1524 (leaves i-xii at end).
Description
[4], xlix, xii leaves, 2 folded leaves of plates : illustrated (coats of arms, map, portrait) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased in 1905.
Binding
16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards. Clasps missing.
Classification
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Department