Itinerariū Portugallēsiū e Lusitania in Indiā [et] inde in occidentem [et] demum as aquilonem
By: [Map of Africa]
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 103, item 6
Published: 1508
Place of publication: Mediolani?
Language: lat
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Discovery and exploration; Spanish; Early works to 1800; Discoveries in geography; Portuguese
Other titles: Itinerarium Portugallensium e Lusitania in Indiam & inde in occidentem & demum ad aquilonem; Itinerariũ Portugallẽsiũ e Lusitania in Indiã & inde in occidentem & demum ad aquilonem
Notes: Signatures: A⁸, aa², B-C⁸, D⁶, E-F⁸, G⁶, H⁸, I⁶, k-M⁸, N⁶.

Colophon: Operi suprema manus imposita est kalendis quintilibus. Ludouico galliar rege hulus urbis iclite sceptra regēte. Iulio secūdo pōtifice maxima orthodoxā fidē feliciter moderāte: anno nr̄æ salutis. M.D.VII.

Dedication dated: Mediolani kalendis iuniis. M.CCCCC.VIII.

Initials.

Several errors in foliation.

Caption title: Itinerarivm Portugallensium ex Vlisbona ī Indiam necnon in occidentem ac septemptrionē: ex vernaculo sermone in latinum traductum. Interprete Archangelo Madrignano mediolanense monacho careuallensi.

A translation of the author's Paesi nouamenti ritrouati, 1507.

Includes an account of the first three voyages of Columbus, and a translation of the "Mundus novus ..." of Vespuccis.

For description of the work cf. Harrisse, Bib. Amer. vetus. no. 58; Church cat. no. 27; John Carter Brown cat., 1919, v. 1, p. 46.

Includes index --2a1 recto -2a2 verso.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, pre-1675, vol. 1, p. 46

Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books Relating to America Printed in the XVth and XVIth Centuries (1482-1601) in the Library of the Late John Carter Brown of Providence, R. I., p. 41

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, entry 27

Edizioni italiane del XVI secolo (2. ed.), entry CNCE 39942

European Americana, entry 508/4

Harrisse, H. Bibliotheca americana vetustissima, entry 58

Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum, entry 13551

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, entry 50058

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, p. 275