Nova typis transacta navigatio. : Novi Orbis Indiæ Occidentalis admodum reverendissimorum PP. ... Dn. Buellii Cataloni abbatis montis Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum Orbem sacræ sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â latere legati, vicarij, ac patriarchæ : sociorumq[ue] monarchorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evangelium prædicandi gratia delegatorum sacerdotum dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum VI. Anno Christi. 1492. Nunc primum e varijs scriptoribus in vnum collecta, & figuris ornata.

Philoponus, Honorius · 1621 · [Linz : s.n.] · 18 pictures

A 1621 Latin compilation printed in Linz, attributed to Honorius Philoponus, gathering accounts of Benedictine missionaries sent to the Americas and of the native peoples they encountered. The pages are engraved plates, shown here turned sideways in the scans. Each plate packs many small figures into dense scenes of landing, ceremony and conflict, offering a designer a compact model of crowded early-modern narrative composition.

Benedictines · Indians · Indians of the West Indies · Imprint 1621

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