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Author Columbus, Christopher.

Title Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502 [microform] : photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign Office in Paris ; the transliteration and translation by George F. Barwick ; the introduction by Henry Harrisse ; the whole compiled and edited, with preface, by Benjamin Franklin Stevens.

Imprint London : B.F. Stevens, 1893.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of American Civilization Microfiche Cabinets  LAC 13607.    ---  Available
Description lxvi, 284 p. : facsim., col. ill., plates.
Series Library of American civilization ; LAC 13607.
Note "Now for the first time published, with expanded text, translation into English, and an historical introduction."
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 Cedulas y otras Escrituras de D~o X~poual Colon Almir~ate Mayor del Mar Oceano 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.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 13607)
Subject Columbus, Christopher.
Added Author Barwick, George Frederick, 1853-1931.
Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902.
Spain. Laws, etc. 1479-1504 (Ferdinand V and Isabella I)
Added Title Codex diplomaticus of Christopher Columbus.

 
    
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