Ioannes Ruffus Foroliuiensis Archiep[iscop]us Co[n]sentin[us]: legat[us] apo. ad lectore[m] De orbe nouo. ... De orbe nouo decades
Contributors: Nebrija, Antonio de, 1444?-1522
Publisher: Impressæ in contubernio Arnaldi Guillelmi in illustri oppido Carpetanæ p[ro]ui[n]ciæ Com[p]luto quod uulgariter dicitur Alcala p[er]fectu[m] est Nonis Noue[m]bris An. 1516.
Published: 1516
Place of publication: [Alcalá de Henares]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Description and travel; Indian linguistics
Other titles: Ioannes Ruffus Foroliuliensis Archiepiscopus Consentinus legatus apo. ad lectorem De orbe nouo.; De orbe nouo decades.
Work titles: De orbe novo. Decade 1-3
Notes: The first three decades of Anghiera's De orbe novo; edited by Antonio de Nebrija.

The first nine books of decade 1 and a part of book 10 originally published as part of: P. Martyris Angli Mediolanensis Opera. Seville, 1511, under title: Occeani decas; also published previously as part of the (second) issue: P. Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensi. Opera. Seville, 1511, under title: Occeanea decas.

In this edition, the part of book 10 of the first decade originally published in 1511 is added to the ninth book, and the text of book 10 as well as that of decade 2-3 is published for the first time.

Another issue of the same year published under title: Argumenta trium decadum tibi lector habeto. ... De orbe nouo decades et Legatio Babylonica. Alcalá de Henares, 1516. According to Arents, this constitutes the second issue, not the first, as Church considers it to be.

Author's name given in headline on leaf [2] recto: P. Martyris Angli Mediol. ..

Imprint from colophon.

Title surrounded by ornamental border.

Signatures: a b-g h i A-B (i5, i8 verso, B8 verso blank)

Cf. Church, E.D.  Discovery no. 39.

Errata (leaf [64] = i4)

Includes: Vocabula Barbara (leaves [66-68] recto = i6-i8 recto)

Legatio Babylonica has separate signatures, but no special title page (leaves [69-84] = A1-B8) and is lacking in some copies. Caption title (leaf [69] recto = A1 recto) reads: Incipitur Legatio Babylonica. Originally published as part of: P. Martyris Angli Mediolanensis. Opera. Seville, 1511. Also published previously as part of the (second) issue: P. Martyris ab Angleria Mediolanensi. Opera. Seville, 1511, under title: Legatio Babilonica. Author's name given at bottom of leaf [69] recto (=A1 recto): Petrus Martyr ab Angleria Mediolanen[sis]

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:66.

Sabin 1550.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 516/1.

Harrisse, H.  Americana, 88.

Rodrigues, J.C.  Bib. Brasiliense, 181.

Moraes, P. B. de  Bib. Brasiliana (new and enl. ed.), 529-530.

Medina, J.T.  Bib. hispano-americana, 53.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 12590.

Arents, G.  Tobacco, 2.

Winsor, J.  Narrative and critical history of America, 1:xx.

Pilling, J.C.  Proof-sheets of a bib. of the languages of the North American Indians, 2486.

John Carter Brown Library copy has portrait of author pasted to front flyleaf.