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Subtitle: Novi Orbis Indiæ Occidentalis admodum reverendissimorum PP. ... Dn. Buellii Cataloni abbatis montis Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum Orbem sacræ sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â latere legati, vicarij, ac patriarchæ : sociorumq[ue] monarchorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evangelium prædicandi gratia delegatorum sacerdotum dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum VI. Anno Christi. 1492. Nunc primum e varijs scriptoribus in vnum collecta, & figuris ornata
By: Authore venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho. 1621
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Linz
Language: lat
Format: [microform] /
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Missions; Indians; Indians of the West Indies; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; Benedictines
Notes: Caspar Plautius used the pseud. Honorius Philoponus so that he could dedicate the work to himself.

Published in Linz. cf. Der amerikanischen neuen Welt beschreibung ... / H.J. Wynkelmann. Oldenburg, 1664, p. 30.

In one state the collation is: )(⁴ A-N⁴ [)(4 and N4 blank]. The preliminaries include the title page, dedication (2nd and 3rd leaves). The end matter, "In annotationem bibliopolæ" appears on verso of leaf N3. In another state the collation is )(⁴ 2)(² A-N⁴. The preliminaries include the title page, dedication (2nd and 3rd leaves), "Ad lectorom", (3rd - 4th leaves), plate labelled "Ads finem præfationis ad lectorem", and "Observatio de magnete nautico" (5th and 6th leaves). Verso of leaf N3 has: "In primis"; N4 recto has "Ordinis S.P. Benedicti" and "In annotationem bibliopolæ"; N4 verso has errata statement.

Engraved title page.

Some copies contain at the end of the volume an extra folded plate of Columbus and crew dated 1622.

Specimen of Indian music is given on pages 35-36.

Errata statement: leaf N4 verso.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 2:156-157

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 621/100

Sabin 63367.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Second state; no added map of Columbus and crew.

First state; no added plate of Columbus and crew.