This manuscript is a German translation of a now lost Latin broadside. The Latin broadside is itself a translation of the Italian original. It was copied sometime around 1540 as the handwriting and language are consistent with south German usage of the first half the 16th century. The watermark dates the paper, made in Augsburg, between 1533 and 1548. It is an extraordinary account of Vespucci's observations made during his third voyage to the New World in 1501. The manuscript is mainly concerned with descriptions of native South Americans. In 1743 a later writer used the remaining three blank pages to makes notes regarding military campaigns in Bohemia during the War of the Austrain Succession.
