Description
Item Description:Originally published under title: Supplementum chronicarum. Venice, 1483.
Errors in foliation: leaves 152, 241, 312 and 375 numbered 125, 242, 302 and 365 respectively.
On title page: coat of arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicino within border, surmounted by a cardinal's hat.
Imprint from colophon (leaf 449 verso): Explicit supplementum supplementi Chronicarum Diligenter Et Accurate Reuisum Atque Correctu[m] Venetiis impressum Opere & impensa Georgii de Rusconibus Anno a Natiuitate Christi. M.D. VI. Die. iiii. Maii. Regnante Leonardo Loredano Venetiarum Principe.
"De quattuor p[er] maximis insulis in India extra orbem nuper inuentis" (verso of leaf 440)--relates to Columbus and his voyages.
Also reports on the newly developed trade to Ethiopia and India.
The Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection copy contains the bookplates of Georg Kloss, M.D. and Robert Walsingham Martin, contains multiple shelfmarks, and a handwritten label on the spine. It has been cut down to 29 cm.
Physical Description:[12], [3]-449 : illustrations, coat of arms ; 32 cm