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Book/Printed Material Senor por que se que aureis plazer dela grand victoria que n[uest]ro señor me ha dado e[n] mi vyaie vos escrito esta por la q[ue]l sabreys co[n]mo xxxiij dias pase alas jndias Pseudo Spanish Columbus letter 1493

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Title

  • Senor por que se que aureis plazer dela grand victoria que n[uest]ro señor me ha dado e[n] mi vyaie vos escrito esta por la q[ue]l sabreys co[n]mo xxxiij dias pase alas jndias

Other Title

  • Pseudo Spanish Columbus letter 1493

Names

  • Columbus, Christopher, author
  • Villa, Vittorio, -1892, forger
  • Quaritch, Bernard, 1819-1899, former owner
  • Zaehnsdorf (Firm), binder
  • John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Italy] : [s.n.], [approximately 1882]

Headings

  • -  America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish
  • -  Columbus, Christopher--Correspondence
  • -  Santángel, Luis de,---1498
  • -  Columbus, Christopher--Forgeries
  • -  Incunabula--Forgeries

Notes

  • -  Title from first lines of text.
  • -  A forgery produced by a Bolognese citizen identified by Henry Harisse as Vittorio Villa, who made five examples around the year 1882. Cf. Goff, "The Letter of Christopher Columbus Concerning the Islands of India."
  • -  John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress). The collection of John Boyd Thacher in the Library of Congress, 674
  • -  Goff, Frederick R. "The Letter of Christopher Columbus Concerning the Islands of India." Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, v. 3 no. 3 (May 1946), pages 3-7.
  • -  The case of the Columbus letter / Randolph Greenfield Adams. [New York] : Privately printed for the Book Club, New York University, 1939.
  • -  LC copy has 4 letters to Bernard Quaritch (from Giovanni Margherini Graziani, Wilberforce Eames, Lauday, and G. Dotti), concerning the veracity of the copy, tipped in. The text is bound in red morocco by Zaehnsdorf.

Medium

  • [8] p. ; 26 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E115 1882

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021656854

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Columbus, Christopher, Author, Vittorio Villa, Bernard Quaritch, Binder Zaehnsdorf, and John Boyd Thacher Collection. Senor Por Que Se Que Aureis Plazer Dela Grand Victoria Que Nuestro Señor Me Ha Dado En MI Vyaie Vos Escrito Esta Por La Quel Sabreys Conmo Xxxiij Dias Pase Alas Jndias. [Italy: s.n., approximately, 1882] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021656854/.

APA citation style:

Columbus, C., Villa, V., Quaritch, B., Zaehnsdorf, B. & John Boyd Thacher Collection. (1882) Senor Por Que Se Que Aureis Plazer Dela Grand Victoria Que Nuestro Señor Me Ha Dado En MI Vyaie Vos Escrito Esta Por La Quel Sabreys Conmo Xxxiij Dias Pase Alas Jndias. [Italy: s.n., approximately] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021656854/.

MLA citation style:

Columbus, Christopher, Author, et al. Senor Por Que Se Que Aureis Plazer Dela Grand Victoria Que Nuestro Señor Me Ha Dado En MI Vyaie Vos Escrito Esta Por La Quel Sabreys Conmo Xxxiij Dias Pase Alas Jndias. [Italy: s.n., approximately, 1882] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021656854/>.