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Description

1. title (1 l.), 3 p.l., [29] p.; 20.5 cm.

Subject

1. Voyages around the world > Early works to 1800
2. Early printed books > 16th century > Facsimiles
3. Maluku (Indonesia)
4. Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521

Call number

1. *KB 1523 (Maximilianus. Maximiliani Tran[s]yluani Cæ[s]aris / a [s]ecretis epi[s]tola)

Note

1. Title within border.
2. Signature Dii is signed Eii.
3. The second edition of Maximilian's account of Magellan's celebrated voyage. Text differs slightly (especially at the beginning and end) from that of the first edition ("De Molvccis infulis", Cologne, Jan. 1523). The date ("Vallifoleti die xxiii octobris M.D.XXII") which occurs at the end of the text in that edition isomitted here.
4. Some bibliographers have considered this the first edition, and that published at Cologne as the second, on the supposition that the beginninf of the year came in March. But as in Cologne, the new year began on Dec. 25, the edition published there in Jan. 1523 must have been earlier. cf. Schöner, Reproduction of his globe of 1523, 1888, p. xxii, 153; and Grotefend, Zeitrechnung des deutschen mittelalters, 1891-98, v. 1, p. 88, 23, 205.
5. Signature A is idential in the New York Public Library copies of Calvi's 1523 and 1524 editions and presumably in the Library of Congress copy of 1523. Other copies of both editions have a varian signature A.
6. Papal privilege, leaf 4, with "aliosure" in line 3 and "excudenosue" in line 5.

Indexed in (note)

1. Harrisse BAV
2. JCB

Author

1. Maximilianus, Transylvanus.

Title

1. Maximiliani Tran[s]yluani Cæ[s]aris / a [s]ecretis epi[s]tola, de admirabili / & noui[ss]ima Hi[s]panorũ in Orien / tem nauigatione, qua uariæ, & nul / li prius ace[ss]æ regiones inuẽtæ / [s]unt, cum ip[s]is etiã Moluccis in[s]u / lis beauti[ss]imis, optimo aromatũ / genere refertis. Inauditi quoq. in / cola[rum] mores exponuntur, ac mul / ta quæ Herodotus, Plinius, Soli- / num atque alii tradiderunt, [s]abulo / [s]a e[ss]e arguuñt. Contra, nonnulla / ibidẽ uera, uix tamen credibilia ex / plicañt. quibu[s]cum hi[s]toriis in[s]u / laribus ambitus de[s]cribĩt alterius / hem[s]phaerii, unde ad nos tandẽ / hi[s]pani redierunt incolumes. / [Colophon:

Imprint

1. Romae, / in aedibvs .F. / Minitii Calvi / anno. M.D.XXIII / mense novembri]

Indexed in:

1. Harrisse BAV 123
2. JCB, 1919, I, 88

Local note

1. Lenox Collection.

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1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Research call number

1. *KB 1523 (Maximilianus. Maximiliani Tran[s]yluani Cæ[s]aris / a [s]ecretis epi[s]tola)