De insulis nuper inuentis Ferdinandi Cortesii ad Carolum V. Rom. imperatorem narrationes. Cum alio quodam Petri Martyris ad Clementem VII. Pontificem Maximum consimilis argumenti libello. : his accesserunt epistolæ duæ, de felicissimo apud Indos Euangelij incremento, quas superioribus hisce diebus quidam fratres Mino. ab India in Hispaniam transmiserunt. : item Epitome de inuentis nuper Indiæ populis idololatris ad fidem Christi, atq[ue] adeo ad Ecclesiam Catholicam conuertendis,

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547, Herborn, Nikolaus, 1480?-1535 · 1532 · Coloniæ : Venduntur in pingui gallina. · 2 pictures

A 1532 Latin printed collection of letters and narratives about the New World, including Hernán Cortés's accounts to Emperor Charles V, published at Cologne and sold at the sign of the fat hen, aimed at scholars and church readers. The first picture is a plain heraldic shield with a chevron, three cartouche-like motifs and a scroll bearing a motto, with scrolling foliage around it, suggesting a designer could draw on early printers' armorial bookplates and ornate frames. The second is a woodcut emblem with two foxes flanking a tree and a hen with chicks in a cartouche above the motto 'In pingui gallina', showing how sixteenth-century printers used allegorical vignettes and decorative borders.

Indians of Mexico · Imprint 1532

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