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Regnvm Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, qvod tam ab incolis qvam Lvsitanis Congus appellatur.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604
Reina, Casiodoro de, approximately 1520-1594
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Rhode Island Historical Society. Library. fmo RIBRL
Title
Regnvm Congo hoc est Vera descriptio regni Africani, qvod tam ab incolis qvam Lvsitanis Congus appellatur.
Publisher
Francofvrti : Excudebat Wolffgangus Richter, impensis Io. Theo. & Io. Israel. de Bry, frat.
Description
Constitutes the first part of Theodor de Bry's Small voyages, printed in 13 parts and an Appendix in Frankfurt am Main and Oppenheim from 1597 to 1633
This work has been identified as the first Latin edition of part one of the Small voyages by Church
Translation of: Relatione del reame di Congo e delle circonvicine contrade / by Filippo Pigafetta, first printed Rome 1591
Contains the relation of the visit of Odoardo Lopez, a Portuguese, to the Congo in the year 1578. It was written by Filippo Pigafetta, from the dictation of Lopez. The Latin translation, here used, is the work of Cassiodore de Reyna. Cf. Church
"Icones quibus ad maioram lectoris recreationem primvs Lvsitanorvm cvm rege congressvs, incolarvm arma et instrvmenta bellica, vestes tam foemineae quam virilis, & aliquorum animalium formae, quasi as viuum proponuntur. In aes incisae per Johannem Theodorum & Johannem Israelem de Bry, fratres & ciues Francofortensis", p. [9-10], 3rd count, has separate title page with imprint: Francoforti: Excudebat Wolffgangus Richter, impensis Ioannes Theodori & Ioannis Israelis de Bry, fratrum, M D. XCVIII. [1598]
Signatures: )(⁴ ()(1, )(2 versos blank) A-H⁴ chi² (chi 2 blank) 2A1 (2A1 verso blank)
Includes index
Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials
Contains 3 folded maps bound to face p. [8], 1st count, and 14 numbered leaves of plates which are printed on recto only and signed 2A2-2D3 following separate dated title page, p. [9-10], 3rd count
Church, E.D. Discovery
Alden, J.E. European Americana
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has only two of the three maps and in this copy appear as double folded maps rather than folded maps following p. [8], 1st count
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound as 1st item of 2 with: II. Pars Indiae Orientalis, in qva Iohan. Hvgonis Lintscotani nauigatio in Orientem, item regna, littora, portus, flumina, apparentiae, habitus moresque Indorum & Lusitanorum pariter in Oriente degentium: praeterea merces, monetae, mensurae, & pondera, quae quibus in locis, quóve compendio prostent, accurate proponuntur / by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Frankfurt, 1599, which is the first Latin edition of De Bry's Small voyages
John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: wanting the map of the map of Sub-Saharan Africa which is bound to face p. [8], 1st count
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Rhode Island Historical Society: bookstamp on on recto of second front flyleaf and pink book stamps on title page

Subjects: Lopes, Duarte; Portuguese; Imprint 1598
Language Latin
Publication date 1598
publication_date QS:P577,+1598-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: jcbgerman; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana
Accession number
regnvmcongohoces00piga_3
Notes No copyright page found.
Authority file  OCLC: 1052542365
Source
Internet Archive identifier: regnvmcongohoces00piga_3
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  • IA contributor: John Carter Brown Library

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