Quinta pars Indiae Orientalis: Quâ continetur vera & accurata descriptio vniuersae nauigationis illius, quam Hollandi cum octonis nauibus in terras orientales, praecipuè verò in Iauanas & Moluccanas Insulas, Bantam, Bandam & Ternatem, &c. susceperunt: : qui An. 1598. Amstelredamo soluentes, partim postero anno 1599. partim hunc sequente 1600 cum ingentibus diuitiis, piperis nucum myristicarum, garyophyllorum, & caeterorum pretiosorum aromatum, feliciter confecto itinere redierunt: vbi iuxtà, quaecunque in itinere ab ipsis gesta, visa & obseruata sunt, sigillatim percensentur.
Quinta pars Indiae Orientalis is a 1601 account of the Dutch voyage to the East Indies, compiled from the journals of Jacob van Neck and Wijbrant van Warwyck and printed at Frankfurt by Matthaeus Becker for a German-reading public. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a cartouche with a bearded mask, a dense strapwork band, and a scrolled corbel, all in the Mannerist engraved-ornament style that a designer could borrow for decorative borders, headers, or capitals.





