Maximiliani Transyluani Cæsaris a secretis epistola, de admirabili & noussima Hispanorũ in Orien tem nauigatione, qua uariæ, & nulli prius accessæ regiones inuẽtæ sunt
Subtitle: cum ipsis etiã Moluccis insulis beatissimis, optimo aromatũ genere refertis
By: Inauditi quoq. in cola[rum] mores exponuntus, ac multa quæ Herodotus, Plinius, Solinus atque alii tradiderunt, fabulo sa esse arguunt̃. Contra, nonnula ibidẽ uera, uix tamen credibilia ex plicant̃. quibuscum historiis insularibus ambitus describit̃ alterius hemisphaerii, unde ad nos tandẽ hispani redierunt incolumes
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 101, item 6
Publisher: F. Minitii Calvi
Published: 1523
Place of publication: Romae in aedibvs
Language: lat
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Notes: Title within border.

Imprint from colophon.

Signature Dii is signed Eii.

The second edition of Maximilian's account of Magellan's celebrated voyage. Text differs slightly (especially at beginning and end) from that of the first edition ("De Molvccis insulis", Cologne, Jan. 1523) The date ("Vallifoleti die xxiiii octobris M.D.XXII") which occurs at the end of the text in that edition im omitted here.

Some bibliographers have considered this the first edition, and that published at Cologne as the second, on the supposition that the beginning of the year came in March. But as in Cologne the new year began on Dec. 25, the edition published there in Jan. 1523 must have been the earlier. cf. Schöner, ... Reproduction of his globe of 1523, 1888, p. xxii, 153; and Grotefend, Zeitrechnung des deutschen mittelalters, 1891-98, v. 1, p. 88, 23, 205.

Master microform held by: GmC.

Manuscript marginal notes. Pages [3]-[4] slightly mutilated.