Chronica compendiosissima ab exordio mundi vsq[ue] ad annum Domini millesimum, quingentesimu[m], trigesimu[m] quartum
By: per venerandum patrem. F. Amandum Zierixeensem, ordinis Fratrum minoru[m] ... ; eivsdem tractatvs De septuaginta hebdomadibus Danielis ; adiectae svnt epistolæ duæ christiani regis Aethiopiæ, Dauidis, ad Clementem Septimum, rhomanum pontificem, anno Domini 1533 destinatæ, cu[m] articulis quibusdam de fide & moribus Aethiopum christianorum ; aliæ quoq[ue] tres epistolæ, ex noua maris oceani Hispania ad nos transmissæ, de fructu mirabili illic surgentis nouæ ecclesiæ, ex quibus animus christianus merito debeat lætari.
Contributors: David II, Negus of Ethiopia, ca. 1500-1540.; Tittelmans, Franciscus, 1502-1537.; Martín, de Valencia, fray, d. 1534.; Zumárraga, Juan de, 1468-1548.; Petrus a Gandavo, d. 1572.
Publisher: Apud Simonem Cocum
Published: 1534
Place of publication: Antuerpiæ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Ismāʻīl I, Shah of Iran, 1487-1524.; Franciscans -- Mexico.; Bible. O.T. Daniel IX, 24-27 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; World history -- Early works to 1800.; Ethiopia -- Church history.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: "De Sophi rege Persarum ... per Amandum, Zierxee[m?]sem": leaf 108v-111r.
"De fide et religione, moribvsqve et caeremonijs praedicti Aethiopiæ regis, et subditorum eius ... per Fratre[m] Franciscum Titelmannu[m], Hassellensem": leaf 117-122.
The three letters from New Spain are by Martin de Valencia, Juan de Zumárraga, bp. of Mexico, and Petrus a Gandavo.