Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, The Decades of the New World or West India (1555)
Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1555
Author
Martyrm Petrus Anglerius (alternate name for Pietro Martire d' Anghiera )
Translator
Richard Eden Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
The interpretacion of certeyne Woordes
Book title
The Decades of the newe worlde or west India, Conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and Ilandes lately founde in the west Ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. In the which the diligent reader may not only consyder what commoditie may hereby chaunce to the hole christian world in tyme to come, but also learne many secreates touchynge the lande, the sea, and the starres, very necessarie to be knowen to al such as shal attempte any nauigations, or otherwise haue delite to beholde the strange and woonderfull woorkes of God and nature. Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden
Publication place
London
Printer
William Powell
Publisher
Rychard Iug
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP (STC 647)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
travel
Language
headwords: English, Haitian
explanations: English
explanations: English
¶ Continente (that is) the firme lande not inclosed with water, or no Ilande.
explanations: English
explanations: English
¶ Continente (that is) the firme lande not inclosed with water, or no Ilande.
Extent
b4r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Alston
XIV.513-20
Schafer
1555 E
STC
647
Other editions
1555: STC 645
1555: STC 646
1555: STC 648
1577: STC 649;
1625: STC 651;
1628: STC 652
Facsimiles
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d'. The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India. Trans. Richard Eden. March of America facsimile series, no. 4. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1966. view record
Modern editions
Eden, Richard. The First Three English Books on America: [?1511]-1555 A.D.: being chiefly translations, compilations, &c. / by Richard Eden .... Birmingham: n.p., 1885. view record
Criticisms
Gwyn, David. "Richard Eden, Cosmographer and Alchemist." The Sixteenth Century Journal 15.1 (1984): 13-34. view record
Hadfield, Andrew. "Peter Martyr, Richard Eden and the New World: Reading, Experience, and Translation." Connotations 5.1 (1995-96): 1-22. view record
Hadfield, Andrew. "Peter Martyr, Richard Eden and the New World: Reading, Experience, and Translation." Connotations 5.1 (1995-96): 1-22. view record
Sources
- Anghiera, Pietro Martire d'. De Orbe Novo: the Eight Decades of Peter Martyr d'Anghera. Trans. Francis Augustus MacNutt. 2 vols. . New York: B. Franklin, 1970. view record
