Pii. II. Pon. Max. Asiae Europaeque elegantissima descriptio, mira festiuitate tum veteru[m], tum recentium res memoratu dignas complectens, maxime quae sub Frederico III. apud Europeos Christiani cum Turcis, Prutenis, Soldano, & caeteris hostibus fidei, tum etia[m] inter sese vario bellorum euentu commiserunt : accessit Henrici Glariani, Heluetij, poetae laureati compendiaria Asiae, Africae, Europaeque descriptio.

Accession number

PML 125175

Creator

Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.

Published

Parisijs : apud Galeotum a Prato, ad primam Palatij regij columnam, 1534.

Credit line

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.

Notes

Originally published under title: Pii II. Pontificis Maximi. Historia rerum ubique gestarum, cum locorum descriptione non finita Asia minor incipit. Venice, 1477.
Contribution by Glareanus (p. 493-522) is an extract (chapters XX-XL) of: De geographia liber unus, Basel, 1527, and includes references to America, Columbus and Vespucci (p. 521).
Includes index.

Description

[16], 522 p. ; 17 cm (8vo)

Provenance

From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).

Binding

Contemporary limp parchment with yapped fore-edge cover extensions; printed waste; evidence of paper spine label and two pairs of fore-edge ties.

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