Regnorum Aquilonarium, Daniae, Sueciae, Norvagiae, Chronica.Accessit, supplementi cuiusdam instar, Dithmarsici belli historia, Christiano Cilicio Cimbro autore. Item Iacobi Ziegleri Schondiao
by KRANTZ, Albert [c1450-c1517]
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Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1583., 1583. folio. pp. 10 p.l., 505, [37]index, [2]errata & colophon. printer's device on title & at end. several woodcut diagrams in text. woodcut ornaments & initials. later bds. (worn but solid). Evelyn library bookplate. Important chronicle of the kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway to the year 1500, written by German historian and diplomatist Albert Krantz (or Crantz) and first published in 1546. The present edition, edited by Johann Wolf, contains a continuation by Cilicius [pseudoym for H.Ranzovius], and a reprint (pp. 473-497) of a complementary treatise on the northern regions by Jakob Ziegler, entitled Schondia, originally published in Ziegler's Quae intus continentur. (Strassburg: 1532). Here, in the section on Greenland (pp. 479-80), reference is made to the American voyage and discoveries of John Cabot, as related by Peter Martyr, with a report of his encounter with ice during the month of July in the Greenland Sea. Adams C2874. BM STC German p. 477. Brunet III 696. Graesse IV 47. Sabin 38299. Winship, Cabot Bibliography, 232n. Not in Alden..
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- Regnorum Aquilonarium, Daniae, Sueciae, Norvagiae, Chronica.Accessit, supplementi cuiusdam instar, Dithmarsici belli historia, Christiano Cilicio Cimbro autore. Item Iacobi Ziegleri Schondiao
- Author
- KRANTZ, Albert [c1450-c1517]
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- Frankfurt am Main: Heirs of Andreas Wechel, 1583.
- Date Published
- 1583
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- 16TH-CENTURY SCANDINAVIA AMERICANA CABOT
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