La quarta relacion q[ue] Ferna[n]do Cortes gouernador y capitan general porsu majestad enla Nueua España d[e]l mar oceano embio al muy alto [y] muy potentissimo inuictissimo señor don Carlos emperador semper angusto [sic] y rey de España nuestro señor : enla qual estan otras cartas [y] relaciones que los capitanes Pedro de Aluarado [y] Diego Godoy embiaron al dicho capitan Fernardo [sic] Cortes

Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547, Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 · 1525 · Fue impressa ... en ... Toledo : Por Gaspar de Auila. · 2 pictures

This is a 1525 printed Spanish letter by Hernán Cortés, governor and captain general of New Spain, addressed to Emperor Charles V and printed in Toledo by Gaspar de Ávila. The first page opens with a large woodcut coat of arms framed by an ornamental border, while the second page shows a decorated initial capital and dense black-letter text in two columns of Spanish prose. For a designer, the heraldic woodcut with its fine hatching and the ornamental woodblock border offer models for emblem-style framing and historical typography.

Imprint 1525

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