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Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502.

Title: Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502. Photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign office in Paris, now for the first time published, with expanded text, translation into English, and an historical introduction; the transliteration and translation by George F. Barwick ... the introduction by Henry Harrisse; the whole comp. and ed., with preface, by Benjamin Franklin Stevens.
Author: Columbus, Christopher.
Publication: London, B.F. Stevens, 1893.

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2 p. ℓ., i-xii p., 1 ℓ. (xii*), xiii-lxvi, 284 p., 1 ℓ. incl. facsim. col. front., pl.; 35 x 22 cm.

Alternative Title

Codex diplomaticus of Christopher Columbus.

Subject

America > Discovery and exploration

Note

Half-title preceding facsimile: Codex diplomaticus of Christopher Columbus, 1502, 1 ℓ.; translation of Spanish title, in red and black, 1 ℓ. Illuminated title: Cartas Preuilegios / Çedulas y / otras Escrituras de / Dõ X̃poual Colon / Almirãte Mayor / del Mar Oçeano Vi / sorey y Governador de / las Islas y Tierra Firme / , 1 ℓ.
Frontispiece: Illuminated arms of Columbus according to the letters patent of 20 May, 1893. Illuminated arms as drawn up by Columbus [1502] being a facsimile of the frontispiece of the Paris codex, p. [7]
"The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in the same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation."--p. [9] (The translation, in gothic type, is enclosed by transliteration, in italic type)
Appended to the Codex are facsimiles of the autograph letters of Columbus to Oderigo, and to the Bank of St. George, and of the Decree of the Republic of Genoa, 1670.
Half-bound in pigskin, beveled wooden boards.

Call Number

HAN+ (1893) (Columbus, C. Christopher Columbus)

LCCN

02012566

OCLC

1862867

Author

Columbus, Christopher.

Title

Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502. Photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign office in Paris, now for the first time published, with expanded text, translation into English, and an historical introduction; the transliteration and translation by George F. Barwick ... the introduction by Henry Harrisse; the whole comp. and ed., with preface, by Benjamin Franklin Stevens.

Imprint

London, B.F. Stevens, 1893.

Added Author

Barwick, G. F. (George Frederick), 1853-1931. Translator

Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.

Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902.

Spain. Laws, etc., (1479-1504 (Ferdinand V and Isabellia I)

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Codex diplomaticus of Christopher Columbus.

Research Call Number

HAN+ (1893) (Columbus, C. Christopher Columbus)

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