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,

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547, Savorgnano, Pietro, active 16th cent, German Americana Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library) RPJCB · 1524 · Impressum in imperiali ciuitate Norimberga, : Per discretum, [et] prouidum virum Fœdericu[m] Arthemesium ciuem ibidem · 7 pictures

This is a 1524 Latin account by Hernán Cortés of his conquest of Tenochtitlan and related provinces, printed in Nuremberg by Friedrich Peypus for a learned European readership. Its pages are set in dense black-letter type with large decorated initial letters at the openings of sections, the most ornate of which contain figures and foliage in woodcut style that a designer could adapt for display initials and historical headers.

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