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 account printed in Linz, attributed to Honorius Philoponus, that gathers early writings on the Benedictine mission to the Indians of the Western Indies, compiled for a clerical readership. Its pages are folded plates of crowded engraved scenes, with figures in ranks, arches, ships and groups of people, offering a designer dense compositions of historical crowd arrangement and period costume.

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

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