De insvlis nvper inventis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum v. rom. imperatorem narrationes
Subtitle: cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII. pontificem maximum consimilis argumenti libello.
By: His accesserunt epistolæ duæ, de felicissimo apud Indos euangelij incremento, quas superioribus hisce diebus quidam fratres mino. ab India in Hispaniam transmiserunt. Item epitome de inuentis nuper Indiæ populis idololatris ad fidem Christi, atq. adeo ad Ecclesiam catholicam conuertendis, autore r.p.f. Nicolao Herborn, regularis obseruantiæ, Ordinis minorum generali commissario cismontano. Venduntur in pingui Gallina.
Contributors: Savorgnano, Pietro.; Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.; Martín, de Valencia, fray, d. 1534.; Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548; Herborn, Nikolaus, 1480?-1535.; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1532
Place of publication: [Coloniæ]
Language: lat; spa
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Indians of Mexico.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.; Latin America -- Description and travel.; America -- Early accounts to 1600.
Notes: Colophon (recto of last leaf): Coloniæ ex officina Melchioris Nouesiani, anno M.D.XXXII. decimo kalendas mensis septembris; (verso): Coloniæ, impensis honesti ciuis Arnoldi Birckman. Anno Domini M.D.XXXII. mense septembri.
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.
Imperfect: 5 leaves wanting (sig. L₁-L₃, M₃-M₄)