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Title

Nova Typis / Transacta Na- / vigatio. / Novi Orbis Indiæ Occi- / dentalis / Admodvm Re- / verendissimorvm PP. / ac FF. Reverendissimi ac Illustrissimi Domini, / Dn. Bvellii Cataloni Abbatis montis / Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum / Orbem Sacræ Sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â Latere / Legati, Vicarij, ac Patriarchæ: Socioruḿq[ue] Mo- / nachorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà / dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evan- / gelium praedicandi gratia delegatorum Sacerdo- / tum. Dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum / VI. Anno Christi. 1492. / Nvnc Primvm / e varijs Scriptoribus in vnum colle- / cta, & figuris ornata. / Avthore / Venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono / Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho.

Author

Plautius, Caspar, abbot of Seitenstetten, active 1621.

Publication

[n.p.] 1621.

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Details

Description

6 p. l., 101, [3] p. 19 pl. diagrs.; 30 cm.

Subjects

• Boyl (or Buyl) Bernardo, -1520
• Latin America > Description and travel, to 1800
• Peru > Description and travel
• America > Discovery and exploration
• West Indies > Description and travel
• Benedictines Spanish America
• West Indies > Description and travel, to 1800
• Indians > Missions
• Indians of the West Indies
• Benedictines Missions

Note

• Engr. t.-p.
• Running title: Navigatio in Novvm mvndvm sive Americam R. patrvm monachorvm ordinis S. P. Benedicti.
• Published in Linz. cf. H.J. Wynkelmann (Winkelmann) Der amerikanischen neuen welt beschreibung ... Oldenburg, 1664, p. 30.
• The first two plates (1) "ad finem præfationis ad lectorem," emblem, with 4 Latin hexameters above and 3 Latin distichs below it; and (2) "Almirante de nauios para las Indias, Wolf Kilian. scalp. [sic]" (full length figure of Columbus; on the left, a large figure of a globe) are not numbered; the remaining plates are numbered 2-18.
• Dedicated to Caspar Plautius, abbot of the Benedictine monastery Seitenstetten in Austria to whom the authorship of the work itself is attributed by H. J. Wynkelmann and by M. Ziegelbauer, Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti, Augustae Vind. et Herbipoli, 1754., t. IV, p. 532. cf. also V. Placcii Theatrum anonym. et pseudon. Hamburg, 1708.
• p. l. [1], sig. [)( 1]: Engr. t.-p. (with portraits of "S. Brandanvs" and "Bvell. Catalonvs."--p. l. [2]-[3], sig. )( 2-3: Dedication, "Vniverso venerabilissimo religiosissimoq[ue] monachorum cœtui ordinis S. P. N. Benedicti. Inprimis autem, & cum primis pietatis, ac liberalium studiosorum gratiosissimo patrono Admodum Reverendo Domino Dn. Casparo Plavtio, monasterij Seittenstöttensis in Austria inferiori abbati dignissimo, theologo ..." signed "Don F. Honorius Philoponus, monachus S. Benedicti."--p. l. [3]vo-[4], sig. )( 3vo-[)( 4[: Preface "Ad benevolvm ordinis monastici S. Benedicti lectorem."--Plate "ad finem præfationis ad lectorem."--p. l. [5]ro, sig. )( )(: Observatio de magnete navtico.--p. l. [5]vo: diagrams.--Text (Navigatio in Novvm mvndvm, sive Americam. Reverend. patrum monachorum ordinis S. P. Benedicti) p. [1]-101.--"Vaticinivm de Messia. et Evangelij ipsius prædictatoribus" (Quotations from "Isaias, 55. c. [4-5]; [60: 3]; c. 49 [: 23]") followed by list of prominent missionaries, p. 101-[102]--Unnumbered leaf at end: ro, "Ordinis S. P. Benedicti, Academiarum fundatores." "In annotationem bibliopolæ." vo, "Errata secundum paginas & versus."

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin
• JCB.

Call Number

*KB+ 1621 (Plautius, C. Nova Typis)

LCCN

03018052

OCLC

4635417

Author

Plautius, Caspar, abbot of Seitenstetten, active 1621.

Title

Nova Typis / Transacta Na- / vigatio. / Novi Orbis Indiæ Occi- / dentalis / Admodvm Re- / verendissimorvm PP. / ac FF. Reverendissimi ac Illustrissimi Domini, / Dn. Bvellii Cataloni Abbatis montis / Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum / Orbem Sacræ Sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â Latere / Legati, Vicarij, ac Patriarchæ: Socioruḿq[ue] Mo- / nachorum ex Ordine S.P.N. Benedicti ad suprà / dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evan- / gelium praedicandi gratia delegatorum Sacerdo- / tum. Dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum / VI. Anno Christi. 1492. / Nvnc Primvm / e varijs Scriptoribus in vnum colle- / cta, & figuris ornata. / Avthore / Venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono / Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho.

Imprint

[n.p.] 1621.

Indexed In:

Sabin 63367, note Copy 1

JCB., 1919, II, 156-157 Copy 1

Local Note

Copy 1: With the additional pl., date 1622, of Columbus discovering America.

Copy 1: With autograph of "j.j. de Bure l'ainé," May 2, 1835.

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Research Call Number

*KB+ 1621 (Plautius, C. Nova Typis)