A briefe collection and compendious extract of strau[n]ge and memorable thinges : gathered oute of the cosmographye of Sebastian Munster. Where in is made a playne descrypsion of diuerse and straunge lavves, rites, manners, and properties of sundry nacio[n]s, and a short reporte of straunge histories of diuerse men, and of the nature and properties of certayne fovvles, fishes, beastes, monsters, and sundrie countries and places.

Accession number

PML 195531

Creator

Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.

Published

Imprinted at London : In fleetstrete neare Sainct Dunstanes Churche by Thomas Marshe, Anno Domini,1572.

Credit line

Purchased as the gift of Mr. & Mrs. Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. and on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2010.

Notes

The translation sometimes attributed to Richard Eden.
"Printing first found out amongeste the Maguntines," fols. 14-15.

Description

[3], 103 leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)

Provenance

From the library of Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt.

Binding

Gilt-tooled brown calf, rebacked, remains of two ties.

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