Details

Subject(s)

• Granada (Kingdom)—History—Spanish Conquest, 1476-1492 [Browse]
• America—Discovery and exploration—Spanish—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• West Indies—Maps—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Incunabula—Specimens [Browse]

Tr

• Cosco, Leandro di [Browse]

Former owner

• Russell, John Fuller, 1813-1884 [Browse]
• Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909 [Browse]
• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Binder

• MacKenzie, J. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Maps [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Annotations [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Maps—West Indies—1494 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Columbus, Christopher. Carta (Feb. 18, 1493). Latin [Browse]

Notes

• Imprint from Goff.
• "De insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis [Epistola Christoferi Colom (cui etas nostra multum debet de insulis in mari Indico nuper inuentis, ad quas perquirendas octauo antea mense: auspiciis & [ae]re inuictissimi Fernandi Hispaniaru[m] regis missus fuerat) ad ... Raphaelem Sanxis, eiusdem serenissimi regis thesaurarium missa, quam ... Aliander de Cosco, ab Hispano ideomate, in Latinum conuertit]": leaves [29b]-[36a].
• "De insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis" includes map of West Indies (12 x 8 cm.) on verso of leaf [31].
• ExKa copy has ms. markings following leaf cciii.

Binding note

ExKa copy in red goatskin bordered in gold tooling; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; in marbled slipcase; stamped over verso of front free endpaper 'Bound by J. Mackenzie'.

Provenance

ExKa copy has bookplates of John Fuller Russell, Robert Hoe and Grenville Kane.

References

• Goff V-125
• Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement), *15942
• BM 15th cent., v. 3, p. 794 (IA 37918)
• Proctor 7770
• Church, E.D. Discovery, 8
• Sabin 98923

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• De insulis in mari Indico nuper inuentis
• De insulis in mari Indico nuper inventis

LCCN

02005687

OCLC

5151050

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