Commentarius brevis rerum in orbe Gestarum
Subtitle: ab anno salutis M.D. vsque In annum M.D. LXXIIII. Ex Optimis quibusque scriptoribus congestus, & nunc recèns non parùm auctus & locupletatus
By: per F. Laurentium Surium Carthusianum. Cum Indice copiosissimo
Contributors: Nauclerus, Johannes
Publisher: Apud Geruinum Calenium, & haeredes Ioannis Quentelij
Published: 1574
Place of publication: Coloniae [i.e. Cologne]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 838
Subjects: Modern History; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Commentarivs brevis rervm in orbe Gestarvm.
Notes: Another issue was printed by G. Calenium and the heirs of J. Quintel in Cologne with 622 numbered pages followed by 30 unnumbered pages.

Originally published as supplement to: Chronicon / by Joannes Nauclerus, first printed in Cologne, 1564.

Includes references to Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci and to the discovery of the New World.

Signatures: a⁸ (a1 verso blank) b-e⁸ A-3F⁸ 3G⁴ (3G4 verso blank)

Errata: p. [1], 3rd count.

Includes index on p. [17-80], 1st count.

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; tail pieces; initials.

Adams, H.W. Cambridge libraries, S2101.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 574/59.