Epistola de insulis de novo repertis
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Description
- Title
- Epistola de insulis de novo repertis
- Creator
- Columbus, Christopher
- Contributor
- Cosco, Leandro di.
- Published / Created
- [between 1500 and 1525]
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on paper of Christophorus Columbus (Christopher C.,1451-1506), Epistola de insulis de novo repertis. Relation of his first voyage to America (1492-1493), addressed to Raphael Sanchez and translated into Latin by Leander de Cosco, dated 14 March 1493. Probably copied from the edition Paris, [Guy Marchant, after 29 April 1493], GKW 7175, variant (a). With Bartholomaeus Columbus (Bartholomew C., c. 1460-1514), Descrizione della navigazione nel Mondo Nuovo. The text is in the wrong order, being probably copied from an exemplar in four pages, of which pages 2 and 3 were inverted
- Description
-
In Latin and Italian.
Watermark: cardinal's hat, var. Briquet 3409 ... (1519-1527?).
Script: Copied by one hand in Gothica Hybrida Formata verging to the Semitextualis, with a "typographic" outlook (but totally different from the printing type used in the presumed exemplar).
Paragraph marks, flourished initials (5 ll. f. 1r, 3 ll. f. 5r) and Columbus coat of arms all in the same brown ink as the text. The arms closely resemble those found in the Genoa codex of his Book of Privileges.
Binding: Unbound. Placed in a boardpaper portfolio and leather-backed boardpaper slip-case. - Provenance
- From the Gritti family archives.
- Extent
- ff. 4 : 315 x 225 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 740
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- paper ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven.
North America - Subject (Name)
- Columbus, Christopher.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Italian literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Navigation
Description and travel - Subjects
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Columbus, Christopher
Italian literature > 16th century
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Navigation
North America > Description and travel
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Christopher Columbus, Epistola de Insulis de Novo Repertis. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9661816
- Object ID (OID)
- 9998983
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