Tertia Ferdina[n]di Cortesii Sac. Caesar. et Cath. Maiesta. in nova maris oceani Hyspania generalis præfecti p[rae]clara narratio, : in qua celebris ciuitatis Temixtitan expugnatio, aliaru[m]q[ue] prouintiaru[m], qu[a]e defecerant recuperatio continetur, in quaru[m] expugnatione, recuperatione q[ue] præfectus, una cum Hyspanis victorias æterna memoria dignas consequutus est, pr[a]eterea in ea Mare del Sur Cortesium detexisse rece[n]set[er], quod nos Australe Indicu[m] Pelagus putam[us], [et] alias innumeras prouintias aurifodinis, unionibus, variisq[ue] Gemmarum generibus refertas, et postremo illis innotuisse in eis quoq[ue] aromata contineri,
A 1524 Latin account of Hernán Cortés's campaigns in New Spain, including the taking of Tenochtitlan, written by Pietro Savorgnano and printed in Nuremberg by Friedrich Peypus for a learned European readership. The pages are text-dominated, with decorated woodcut initials, historiated capitals and small figure vignettes that a designer could use for historical borders, drop caps and ornamental letterforms.
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