Cosas notables de la Indias Occidentales
Published: 1602
Place of publication: Spain?
Language: spa
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Latin Manuscripts; Latin; Spanish Manuscripts; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Spanish; Bry, Theodor de,; Manuscripts; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Ms. codex.

Title from recto of first leaf, which was originally numbered as leaf 279 of the manuscript.

Leaves are numbered at head of rectos of leaves.

The production date of 1602 is conjectured by the subject of the manuscript. These notes describe the first nine volumes of Theodor de Bry's America, which were printed in Frankfurt-am-Main from 1590-1602.

The text of this manuscipt is written in two columns in one hand.

These leaves were probably excised from a much larger work which may have concerned reading or bibliographic study, perhaps from the notebook of an unnamed advanced student.

"Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, nuper admodum ab Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV", part 1, was a publication: of A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia / by Thomas Harriot, first printed London, 1588, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin, English, French and German in 1590, and later editions. The first section is extracted and translated from and translated into Spanish from the title page, and parts of of de Bry's publication of Heriot's text.

"Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provi[n]cia Gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam nauigatione, duce Renato de Laudo[n]niere classis praefecto anno M D LXIIII", part 2, was a publication of: L'histoire notable de la Floride / by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, first printed Paris, 1586 and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German in 1591, and later editions.

"Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit", part 3, is a publication of: Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen, first printed Marburg, 1557, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, first printed La Rochelle, 1578 and which first appeared in Latin under title: Historia navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America dicitur, Geneva, 1586, and two letters by Nicolas Barré first printed in: Copie de quelques letres sur la navigation du chevalier de Villegaignon es terre de l'Amerique oultre l'oequinoctial, iusques soubz le Tropique de Capricorne, printed Paris, 1557, and again in Paris, 1558, and which were issued by de Bry in Latin and German from 1593 to 1597, and later editions.

"Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M CCCCXCII", part 4, was a publication of book one of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, which was first printed in Latin, Geneva, 1578, under title: Novae Novi Orbis historiae, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German in 1594, and later editions.

"Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni [sic] Mediolanensis secundae sectionis Hispaniorum, tum in Nigrittas seruos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia; aduentu[m] item Hispanoru[m] in Nouam Indiae continentis Hispaniam, eorumq[ue] contra incolas eius regionis saeuitiam explicans", part 5, was a publication of book two of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, which was first printed in Latin, Geneva, 1578, under title: Novae Novi Orbis historiae, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German in 1595, and later editions.

"Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm praecedentes duae. In hac enim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tissimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: dei[n]de orta inde inter Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella", part 6, was a publication of book three of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, which was first printed in Latin, Geneva, 1578, under title: Novae Novi Orbis historiae, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German from 1596-1597, and later editions.

"America pars VII. Verissima et iucundissima descriptio praeciparum quarundam Indiae regionem & insularum, quae quidem nullis ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque", part 7, was a publication of: Das VII. Theil Americae. Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung etlicher fürnemen indianischen Landtschafften und Insulen, first printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1597, but which was first printed as volume 2 of: Erst [-ander] Theil dieses Weltbuchs, von newen erfundnen Landtschafften / by Sebastian Franck, Frankfurt am Main, 1567 under title: Warhafftige Beschreibunge aller und mancherley sorgfeltigen schiffarten, which was also printed in: Neue Welt: das ist, Warhafftige Beschreibunge aller schönen Historien von Erfindung viler vnbekanten Königreichen, Landschafften, Insulen unnd Stedten, also printed Frankfurt am Main, 1567, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German from 1597 to 1599, and later editions.

"Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, Descriptionem trium itinerum nobilissimi et fortissimi equitis Francisci Draken, qui peragrato primum vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea cum nobilissimo equite Iohanne Hauckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam nauigauit, vbi vitam suam ambo finierunt. Secundo, iter noblissimi equitis Thomae Candisch, qui duorum ferè annorum spacio, 13000. Anglicana miliaria in mari confecit, vbi describuntur quoque omnia quae in hoc itinere ipsi acciderunt & visa sunt. Tertio, duo itinera, nobilissimi & fortissimi domini Gualtheri Ralegh equitis & designati gubernatoris regij in Anglia praesidij, nec non fortissimi capitanei Laurentii Keyms. Quibus itineribus describitur auriferum et potentissimum regnum Guiana, ad septentrionem fluminis Orenoque, aliàs Oreciliana dicti, situm, cum metropoli eius Manoa & Macuieguarai, aliisq[ue] finitimis regionibus & fluuis, mereibus item praestantissimis, & mercatura, quae in regno hoc exercetur", part 8, contained relations of six different voyages; three by Drake, one by Candish or Cavendish, and two by Sir Walter Raleigh, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German in 1599, and later editions.

"Americae nona & postrema pars. Qua de ratione elementorum: De novi orbis natura: de huius incolarum superstitiosis cultibus: deq[ue] forma politicae ac Republ. ipsorum copiosè pertractatur: catalogo regum Mexicanorum omnium, à primo usq[ue] ad vltimum Motec̦umam II. addito: cui etiam ritus eorum coronationis, ac sepulturae annectitur, cum enumeratione bellorum, quae mutuò Indi gesserunt. His accessit designatio illius navigationis, quam 5. naues Hollandicae anno 1598. per Fretum Magellanum in Moluccanas insulas tentarunt: quomodo nimirum oborta tempestate capitaneus Sebalt de Weert à caeteris nauibus dispulsus, postquam plurimis mensibus in freto infinitis aerumnis miserè iactatus fuisset, tandem infectare post biennium An[no] 1600. domum reuersus sit. Addita est tertio nauigatio recens, quam 4. nauium praefectus Olevier à Noort proximè suscepit: qui Freto Magellanico classe transmisso, triennij spatio vniuersum terrae orbem seu globum mira navigationis forte obiuit: annexis illis, quae in itinere isto singularia ac memorabiliora notata sunt", part 9, was contained Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias, published in Seville in 1590 [sic, actually translated, by J. Humberger, from Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, printed Haarlem, 1598]. Then follows the voyage of Sebald de Weert made in a vessel which was part of the fleet sent to the Moluccas by way of the Straits of Magellan in June, 1598. The project was disastrous and de Weert's vessel was the only one to return. The narrative was written by Zacharias Heyns [sic, actually attributed to Barent Jansz Potgieter] and was first published at Amsterdam in 1600. It was translated into German and then into Latin by the de Brys [actually both translated into both languages by Gotthard Arthus]. This is followed by the Additamentum, which contains a narration of the voyage of Olivier van Noort, understaken with the same object as that of de Weert's. An account of this voyage was published in 1602 by Cornelis Claes, and which was issued by de Bry in Latin and German in 1601 to1602, and later editions.

The text is predominently written in Spanish at first but written progressively in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy has leaves mounted between tabs and bound in modern red blind-tooled morocco with "Virginia" stamped in gold on cover.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of Michael Zinman.