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Mundus nouus / [by Amerigo Vespucci].

Author/creator Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBoston : Massachusetts Historical Society, 1920.
Description[11] p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Subject(s)
Variant title Binder's title: Letter of Vespuccius
Series Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteColonization.
Local note2013AJ07900.
Local noteColonization.
Local note2013AJ07900.
General noteCollation of original: 4 leaves.
General noteBlack letter. Initials; 40 lines in a full page. Triangle, with explanatory words, at head of last leaf.
General noteAt head of text: Albericus vespucius Laurentio Petri de medicis salutem plurimam dicit.
General noteAt end: Ex italica in latinam linguam iocũdus interpres hãc epistolam vertit vt latinioẽs intelligant q̈[ue] multa mirãda in dies reperiant̃, [et] eo[rum] comprimatur audacia qui celũ et maiestatem scrutari et plus sapere q̈[ue] liceat sapere volunt: quando tanto tempore quo mundus cepit ignota sit vastitas terre [et] que contineãtur in ea. Laus deo.
General noteFor desription of the work cf. Harrisse, Bibl. amer. vetus., no. 22. For place and date of publication, cf. Vignaud, Americ Vespuce ... p. 8, no. 1.
General noteOriginally published: [Augsburg, 1504].
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 99329.

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