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GEOGRAPHY
BAPTISTA MANTUANUS
Giovanni Battista Spagnolo, O. Carm., Poet, Philosopher and
Theologian, horn at Mantova in 1448, died in 1516.
54 De patientia. Basel, Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1499.
4to. Rom. and goth, letter, with quotations in Greek, 30 lines, 118
unn. 11. with sign., 2 blanks at end (the latter pasted inside end-cover).
With numer. nice woodcuts. Wooden boards, back and a third of sides
covered with blind-stamped pigskin, one clasp. Frs. 1200.—
Gesamtkatalog 3307. Hain-Cop. 2407. Proctor 7783- Pellechet 1813- Brit. Mas.
Cat. Ill, 797. This is the last dated book from the press of Johann Bergmann.
EARLY AMERICANUM. Containing a passage of outstandig interest,
dealing with the widening question of World-Evangelisation, in which refe-
rence is made to great territorial discoveries in distant oceans in terms,
which can only be interpreted as referring to America. This passage is on fol.
ps, in a chapter headed ‘An sit ubique Christi lex promulgata’, and runs in English
translation as follows:
“But it is a question if it has been fulfilled: and their word went out into all the
world —, if under ‘world’ the Continent is to be unterstood. I do not doubt it; but if
the word ‘world’ covers the whole of the inhabited earth, I do doubt it, and par-
ticularly for this reason, because in our days through the activity of the kings
of Spain in the Atlantic, the Aethiopic and Indian Ocean, aye even unto the
tropic of Capricorn and the Torrid Zone, where the other inhabited part of
the earth lies, many isles have been discovered, inhabited by men and much
bigger than ours, some of them having a circumference of 3,000 miles and
more. These isles are mentioned neither by Strabo, nor by any other old
writer, from which it is certain that they remained unknown until now and
only now have they received the tidings of Christ ..."
On the evidence of these details and precise data not the least doubt can
remain that we have here to do with a genuine and original early Americanum,
since these sentences cannot apply to smaller islands in the West Atlantic but must
be taken as referring to the discovery of the American Continent: a fact which entirely
has escaped the notice of all bibliographers up to now.
The book is a kind of manual of meditation, apparently intended for the use
of the Carmelite friars, and deals with philosophical, religious, medical and other sub-
jects of general interest, of which we quote some headings: De morbi cognitione. —
De duplici morbo hominis: — De morborum spiritualium origine. — De vi libertate.
— In quo consistit foelicitas in hac vita. — Sex causae flagellorum nostrorum. —
Quae sint mortis causae. — Causa brevis vitae. — De vi & natura miraculorum. —
An mors corporis sit naturalis. — De loco damnatorum: qui dicitur infernus. — De
iudicio. — Etc., etc.
First and last leaves wormed, marginal notes throughout in two different con-
temp. hand, but a very good and perfect copy of this highly interesting early
Americanum of which only 3 copies are in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
— See also section Humanists.
Blondus, Flavius. See section Archaeology.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.
BAPTISTA MANTUANUS
Giovanni Battista Spagnolo, O. Carm., Poet, Philosopher and
Theologian, horn at Mantova in 1448, died in 1516.
54 De patientia. Basel, Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1499.
4to. Rom. and goth, letter, with quotations in Greek, 30 lines, 118
unn. 11. with sign., 2 blanks at end (the latter pasted inside end-cover).
With numer. nice woodcuts. Wooden boards, back and a third of sides
covered with blind-stamped pigskin, one clasp. Frs. 1200.—
Gesamtkatalog 3307. Hain-Cop. 2407. Proctor 7783- Pellechet 1813- Brit. Mas.
Cat. Ill, 797. This is the last dated book from the press of Johann Bergmann.
EARLY AMERICANUM. Containing a passage of outstandig interest,
dealing with the widening question of World-Evangelisation, in which refe-
rence is made to great territorial discoveries in distant oceans in terms,
which can only be interpreted as referring to America. This passage is on fol.
ps, in a chapter headed ‘An sit ubique Christi lex promulgata’, and runs in English
translation as follows:
“But it is a question if it has been fulfilled: and their word went out into all the
world —, if under ‘world’ the Continent is to be unterstood. I do not doubt it; but if
the word ‘world’ covers the whole of the inhabited earth, I do doubt it, and par-
ticularly for this reason, because in our days through the activity of the kings
of Spain in the Atlantic, the Aethiopic and Indian Ocean, aye even unto the
tropic of Capricorn and the Torrid Zone, where the other inhabited part of
the earth lies, many isles have been discovered, inhabited by men and much
bigger than ours, some of them having a circumference of 3,000 miles and
more. These isles are mentioned neither by Strabo, nor by any other old
writer, from which it is certain that they remained unknown until now and
only now have they received the tidings of Christ ..."
On the evidence of these details and precise data not the least doubt can
remain that we have here to do with a genuine and original early Americanum,
since these sentences cannot apply to smaller islands in the West Atlantic but must
be taken as referring to the discovery of the American Continent: a fact which entirely
has escaped the notice of all bibliographers up to now.
The book is a kind of manual of meditation, apparently intended for the use
of the Carmelite friars, and deals with philosophical, religious, medical and other sub-
jects of general interest, of which we quote some headings: De morbi cognitione. —
De duplici morbo hominis: — De morborum spiritualium origine. — De vi libertate.
— In quo consistit foelicitas in hac vita. — Sex causae flagellorum nostrorum. —
Quae sint mortis causae. — Causa brevis vitae. — De vi & natura miraculorum. —
An mors corporis sit naturalis. — De loco damnatorum: qui dicitur infernus. — De
iudicio. — Etc., etc.
First and last leaves wormed, marginal notes throughout in two different con-
temp. hand, but a very good and perfect copy of this highly interesting early
Americanum of which only 3 copies are in U. S. A. (acc. to Census).
— See also section Humanists.
Blondus, Flavius. See section Archaeology.
GILHOFER & RANSCHBURG, WIEN I, BOGNERGASSE Nr. 2.