De insulis nuper inuentis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum V. Rom. imperatorem narrationes, cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII. pontificem maximum consimilis argumenti libello
Subtitle: his accesserunt epistolae duae, de felicissimo apud Indos euangelij incremento, quas superioribus hisce diebus quidam fratres mino. ab India in Hispaniam transmiserunt : item epitome de inuentis nuper Indiae populis idololatris ad fidem Christi, atq[ue] adeo ad Ecclesiam Catholicam conuertendis, autore r.p.f. Nicolao Herborn, regularis obseruantiae, Ordinis minorum generali commissario Cismontano.
Contributors: Savorgnano, Pietro, fl. 1523-1530.; Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.; Martín, de Valencia, fray, d. 1534.; Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548.; Herborn, Nikolaus, 1480?-1535.; Neuss, Melchior von, fl. 1525-1551, publisher.; Birckmann, Arnold, fl. 1530-1542, printer.; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress); Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Ex officina Melchioris Nouesiani, impensis honesti ciuis Arnoldi Birckman
Published: 1532
Place of publication: Coloniae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Indians of Mexico; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540; Latin America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- History -- 16th century -- Sources; America -- Early accounts to 1600
Genres: Sources.; Early accounts to 1600.
Other titles: De insvlis nvper inventis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum v. Rom. imperatorem narrationes, cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII. pontificem maximum consimilis argumenti libello.
Work titles: Cartas de relación. 2 & 3.
Notes: Imprint from colophons: colophon (recto of last leaf): Coloniae ex officina Melchioris Nouesiani, anno M.D.XXXII. decimo kalendas mensis Septembris; (verso): Coloniae, impensis honesti ciuis Arnoldi Birckman. Anno Domini M.D.XXXII. mense Septembri.

"Venduntur in pingui Gallina, anno M.D. XXXII".

Signatures: A⁴, Aa-Bb⁴, A-K⁶, [L⁴] M⁶.

Title within ornamental border composed of 25 escutcheons of Spanish provinces and towns; head and tail pieces.

"This edition contains besides the Second and Third letters of Cortés in Latin [translated by Pietro Savorgnano], Peter Martyr's De insulis ... and a letter from Martin De Valencia, with others sent from Mexico by Bishop Zumarraga ..."--Church cat., no. 63.

LC copy imperfect: 5 leaves wanting (sig. L1-L3, M3-M4).