Antiqvitates americanæ; sive, Scriptores septentrionales rerum ante-columbianarum in America. Samling af de i nordens oldskrifter indeholdte efterretninger om de gamle Nordboers opdagelsesreiser til America fra det 10de til det 14de aarhundrede. Edidit Societas regia antiqvariorum septentrionalium.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rafn, Carl Christian, 1795-1864.

Contributor:

Coleman, George Dawson, 1825-1878., Former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

America--Discovery and exploration--Norse.

America.

America--Antiquities.

Genre:

Bookplates (Provenance) -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 479 p. XVII pl. (partly fold.; incl. maps, facsims.) facsim., IX geneal. tab. 33 x 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hafniæ, typis officinæ Schultzianæ, 1837.

Contents:

Introductio.

Conspectus codicum membraneorum, in quibus terrarum americanarum mentio fit.

America discovered by the Scandinavians in the tenth century [by C.C. Rafin]

þættir af Eireki Rauda ok Grænlendíngum.

Saga P̃orfinns Karlsefnis ok Snorra þorbrandsonar.

De inhabitatione Islandiæ.

De inhabitatione Grœnlandiæ.

De Ario Maris filio.

De Björne Breidvikensium Athleta.

De Gudleivo Gudlœgi filio.

Excerpta ex annalibus Islandorum.

De mansione Grœnlandorum in locis borealibus.

Excerpta e geographicis scriptis veterum Islandorum.

Carmen færöicum, in quo Vinlandiæ mentio fit.

Adami Bremensis relatio de Vinlandia.

Descriptio quorundam monumentorum europæorum, quæ in oris Grönlandiæ occidentalibus reperta et detecta sunt.

Descriptio vetusti monumenti in regione Massachusetts reperti.

Descriptio vetustorum quorundam monumentorum in Rhode Island.

Annotationes geographicæ.

Notes:

Compiled by C.C. Rafn.

The texts of the sagas are in Icelandic, Danish, and Latin.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: DuBarry gift.

Athenaeum copy: With bookplate of George Dawson Coleman.

OCLC:

2190500