P. Martyris Angli Mediolanensis Opera
Subtitle: Legatio Babylonica ; Occeani decas ; Poemata ; Epigrammata
Contributors: Nebrija, Antonio de, 1444?-1522
Publisher: cu[m] summa diligencia per Jacobu[m] Corumberger Alemanu[m].
Published: 1511
Place of publication: Impressum Hispali
Language: lat
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Description and travel
Work titles: Selections
Notes: A collection of four works, edited by Antonio de Nebrija and published here for the first time.

Another issue, also published in Seville in 1511, is known.  Its title differs: P. Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensi. Opera: Legatio Babilonica ; Occeanea decas ; Poemata. Its colophon is identical.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ d-f⁸ chi² g⁶ h-i⁸ k⁶ (k6 verso blank)

In some copies, the two unsigned leaves (chi 1-2) are bound, incorrectly, between gatherings c and d or g and h respectively.

Map (leaf [45] recto = chi 1 recto) unnumbered.

Errata (leaves [46] = chi 2, [74] recto = K6 recto)

Contents: Legatio Babylonica (leaves [3-20]; errata leaf [46] recto); headline leaf [3] recto: P. Martyris Angli Mediolanensis protonarii apostolici regij consiliarij Legatio Babylonica. -- Occeani decas (leaves [21-46]); headline leaf [21] recto: P. Martyris Angli Mediol [anensis] consiliarij regij. prot. ap[osto]l[ici] Occeanee decadis liber primus ...; comprises books 1-9 and part of book 10 of the first decade; including the map of the West Indies, a letter to Cardinal Ximenes and errata. -- Epigrammata (leaves [47-52]. -- Poemata (leaves [53-73], in 2 columns; errata leaf [74] recto)

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:52.

Sabin 1548.

European Americana 511/1.

Harrisse, H.  Americana, 66.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 35.

Moraes, FP. B. de  Bib. Brasiliana (new and enl. ed.), 529.

Medina, J.T.  Bib. hispano-americana, 47.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 12589.

Winsor, J.  Narrative and critical history of America, 2:109-110, 112-113.

Hough, S.J.  The Italians and the creation of America, 30.