Eusebius Caesarensis: [Saint Jerome, Mattia Palmieri, Johannes Multivallis, and others, editors]:

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EUSEBII CAESARIE[N]SIS EPISCOPI CHRONICO[N]. From the collection of R. David Parsons. This second edition of this universal history of secular and ecclesiastical events from the time of Abraham up to 1511, includes entries on the discovery and early exploration of the New World. Events through the year 325 are taken from the Chronicron of Eusebius, and continued thence to the mid-1400s by Saint Jerome, Mattia Palmieri of Pisa, and others. The chronicle has been edited and extended from Palmieri's time in the mid-1400s to 1512 by Johannes Multivallis, and was first published in this form by Henri Estienne the elder in that year.While the exploits of early explorers such as Alvise Cadamosto are listed among ecclesiastical and secular successions, natural phenomena, and wars, the first mention of the New World does not come until 1509. The entry, one of the longest in the entire chronicle and filling twenty lines of text, is of great significance and describes the arrival in Rouen of seven indigenous Americans, most likely those brought from Canada by the French explorer Thomas Aubert, who visited Newfoundland in 1508. The description in this work claims (in translation) that the seven were brought to Rouen "from that island called the New World, with their small boat [i.e. a canoe], costumes, and weapons." They are said to have markings "drawn like pale veins from the ear to the middle of the chin," hair which is "black and long, like a horse's mane," and to have no religion. T

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