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Ein schöne Newe zeytung so Kayserlich Mayestet Ausz India yetz nemlich zükommen seind. Gar hupsch vö den Newen Ynseln, und von yrem Sytten gar kurtzweylig züleesen.

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Ein schöne Newe zeytung so Kayserlich Mayestet Ausz India yetz nemlich zükommen seind. Gar hupsch vö den Newen Ynseln, und von yrem Sytten gar kurtzweylig züleesen.
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[Augsburg? Sigmund Grimm, 1522?]

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Additional Authors
  • Grimm, Sigmund, fl. 1517-1527, printer.
  • Kunsthaus Zürich
Description
[8] l. : facsim.; 19 cm.
Subject
  • Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
  • Voyages around the world
Note
  • Woodcut title incorporating the Hapsburg imperial double eagle within wide Renaissance ornamental borders.
  • Signatures: A-B4.
  • Printing attributed to Grimm because of a supposed resemblance in type. End piece of woodcut pine cone (the city's coat of arms) points to Augsburg as probable place of publication.
  • The final paragraph is the earliest known printed announcement of the completion of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. Also contains a summarized account of Columbus' voyages to America and Cortes' conquest of Mexico.
  • Photocopy of original in John Carter Brown Library.
  • Believed to have been printed in Augsburg by Sigmund Grimm about 1522.
Indexed In (note)
  • Sabin
  • Harrisse
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
  • 1243854202
  • SCSB-10137343
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library