Chronographia, o, Reportorio delos tiempos : el mas copioso y preciso q[ue] hasta agora ha salido a luz / co[m]puesto por Híeronymo de Chaues ; y agora nueuamente añedido. Con privillegio real.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaves, Geronimo, 1523-1574.

Contributor:

Alvarez, Christoval, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Spanish Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Chronology.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Calendar.

Omens.

Penn Provenance:

Joaristi, Celestino (autograph)

Chaves, Jerónimo de (inscription)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, ccvj leaves : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Chronographia

Reportorio de los tiempos

Fingerprint:

pes. 5.e. asuy nutr (7) 1550 (T)

Place of Publication:

Impresso en ... Seuilla : Por Christoual Aluarez ..., año 1550.

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

"Dela quarta parte del mundo llamada mundo nuevo"--Leaf xlvj [i.e. lvj] ; map on verso depicts Old World and part of New. Longitude of New World sites (in degrees from Seville) given in table, leaf cciij.

The first ed. (1548) does not include the map of New World, reproduced in Vindel and described there and in later authorities as belonging to later editions.--Cf. Vindel, F. Mapas de América, p. 27-31.

Signatures: [maltese cross]⁸ a-z⁸ A-B⁸ C⁶.

Leaves lv, lvj and cvj misnumbered xlx, xlvj and cv respectively.

Leaf gii missigned giii.

Title in red and black within ornamental woodcut border; woodcut ill. and initials.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has name Jerónimo de Chaves written on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ownership autograph of Celestino Joaristi, Havana, Cuba.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. note covered with ink on t.p.

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 67450n

NUC pre-1956, 105, p. 68

Salvá y Perez Cat. de la Bib. de Salvá, II, 3766n

OCLC:

81130663