Epistola Christofori Colom, cui [a]etas nostra multum debet, de insulis Indi[a]e supra Gangem nuper inue[n]tis. Ad quas perquirendas octauo antea mense auspiciis [et] [a]ere inuictissimorum Fernandi ac Helisabet Hispania[rum] Regu[m] missus fuerat, ad magnificu[m] d[omi]n[u]m Gabrielem Sanches ... missa / qua[m] ... Leander de Cosco ab Hispano idiomate in Latin[m] co[n]uertit, tertio kalen[das] Maij. M.cccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri Sexti anno primo.

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Columbus, Christopher [Browse]
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Book
Language
Latin
Published/​Created
Impressit Rome : Eucharius Argenteus, Anno D[omi]ni. M.cccc xciij [1493].
Description
[8] p. (the last [2] p. blank) ; 20 cm. (4to)

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Notes
  • Caption title.
  • Translation of: Señor por que se que aureis plazer de la grand vitoria, Barcelona, 1493.
  • Imprint from colophon.
Binding note
ExKa copy in paneled saffron goatskin; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Provenance
  • ExKa copy has bookplates of Henry Huth and Grenville Kane.
  • WHS copy is Robert Hoe and Henry C. Murphy's copy, acquired 1/25/12 thru Dodd Livingston.
References
  • JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:19.
  • GW 7178.
  • Alden, J.E. European Americana 493/6.
  • Stillwell C690
  • Goff C-759
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Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
  • Epistola de insulis Indiæ supra Gangem nuper inuentis.
  • Epistola de insulis nuper inventis.
OCLC
54632941
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