Operae horarum succisiuarum, sive Meditationes historicae. : Continentes accuratum delectum memorabilium historiarum, & rerum tam veterum, quàm recentium, singulari studio inuicem collatarum, quae omnia lectoribus & uberem admodum fructum, & liberalem pariter oblectationem afferre poterunt. Unà cum indice locupletissimo

Title Variants

Alternative: Meditationes historicae
Alternative: Operae horarum succisiuarum
Alternative: Operae horarvm succisivarvm
Alternative: Operae horarvm succisivarvm, sive Meditationes historicae

By

Camerarius, Philipp, 1537-1624

Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572? , Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526 , De orbe novo

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Noribergae [i.e. Nuremberg], Typis Christophori Lochneri et Iohannis Hofmanni. Cum gratia & priuilegio Caes. Maiest. ad annos XII, Anno M D XCI. [1591]

Notes

Another edition printed in Altdorf by Christophor Lochner and Johann Hofmann in the same year.

Errata: p. [74], 3rd count.

Includes index.

Includes references to new islands in the West Indies and the swiftness of Indians in chasing down stags. Also includes a citation by Pietro Martire d'Anghiera concerning a place called "Zauana" in "Guaccaiarima" and to "cohoba", a kind of narcotic snuff, from his De orbe novo, first published Alcalà de Hernares, 1516, and references to tobacco cited in Historia del Mondo Nuovo by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed in Venice, 1565.

Signatures: a-d⁴ (d4 verso blank) A-4D⁴ (4D4 verso blank)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

VD 16 | C576.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | A591/2.

Text primarily in Latin with some passages in Greek and Hebrew.

Subjects

America , Early accounts to 1600 , History , Imprint 1591 , Miscellanea , Snuff , Tobacco

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.104492