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Preface to the electronic edition

This "Description of the Northern Peoples" in the Latin languagewas first published in Rome in 1555 (MDLV), after the Lutheranreformation had made its author Olaus Magnus and his brother JohannesMagnus, who was the archbishop of the Catholic church in Sweden, gointo exile. (Olaus was also granted the title of archbishop.) Therichly illustrated volume is organized in 22 books, each havingseveral chapters. Many later editions and translations exist.Read more in Wikipedia.

Google has digitized two copies of this first edition,one fromBibliothèque jésuite des Fontaines in Lyon, France andone from GhentUniversity, Belgium. Project Runeberg has in January 2012 copiedscanned images and OCR text from Nasjonalbiblioteket, Norway.

The initial acknowledgements and index are not paginated in print,but have been given Roman page numbers for Project Runeberg'selectronic edition, starting with 1 (i) at the title page. TheNorwegian page images in colour have a resolution of 400 dpi.Unfortunately, images were missing of the four pageslx,lxi,lxvi, andlxvii.These have instead been copied from Google at 300 dpi black-and-white.When proofreading, the long s (ſ) is changed into the common short s(s). Capital V and lowercase u (GENTIBVS, naues) are kept, asprinted.

Index rerum-Liber I-II-III-IIII-V-VI-VII-VIII-IX-X-XI-XII-XIII-XIIII-XV-XVI-XVII-XVIII-XIX-XX-XXI-XXII-Appendix

This volume was scanned by the Norwegian National Library,from where the scanned images were copied to Project Runeberg.We very much appreciate that they have made this possibleand want to encourage other digital library projects tofollow their example. Read more about Project Runeberg'simage sources.

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