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A letter of Christopher Columbus.
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Letter II (Sanchez). English
Incipit: [H]aving now accomplished the undertaking upon which I set out, I know that it will be agreeable to you to be informed of all that I have done and discovered in my voyage.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[S.l., s.n., after 29 Apr. 1493]
NOTES
Caption title.
First English version (anonymous) of the letter addressed to Gabriel Sánchez. Based on the 1493 Basel ed. printed by Michael Furter for Johann Bergmann (Goff C-760). A copy appeared in the Edinburgh review, 1816, v. 27, p. 505-511.
Initial (H) omitted.
Not mentioned in the British Museum catalog, Copinger, Goff, Hain, Harrisse, or Harvard University Library catalog (15th cent.).
LC copy with: Epistola Christofori Colom ... de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper inve[n]tis ... ad D[omi]n[u]m Gabrielem Sanchis ... missa. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 29 Apr. 1493]
SUBJECTS
Columbus, Christopher--Correspondence.
America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Early works to 1800.
Indians of the West Indies--Early works to 1800.
MEDIUM
[8] p. 20 cm.
CALL NUMBER
Incun. 1493 .C6
DIGITAL ID
rbesp 0001_0015 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbesp.0001_0015
RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(Latin version)
(Parallel Histories: Spain, United States, and the American Frontier: Selections from the LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division Description)
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