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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Demostracion historiografica del derecho que tiene el Rey Catholico âl territorio que oy posee el Rey Britanico con el nombre de nueva Georgia en las Provincias y continente de la Florida en la que se prueba el dominio positivo que tiene el Rey de España

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Title

  • Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Demostracion historiografica del derecho que tiene el Rey Catholico âl territorio que oy posee el Rey Britanico con el nombre de nueva Georgia en las Provincias y continente de la Florida en la que se prueba el dominio positivo que tiene el Rey de España

Names

  • [Antonio de Arredondo]

Created / Published

  • Havana, April 22, 1742

Headings

  • -  Florida--History--Sources
  • -  New Spain--Boundaries
  • -  England--Boundaries
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Arredondo's work is a defense of Spain's rights to the region which the English were occupying under the name of Georgia. The work has been well known since 1925 when it was published in English and Spanish by Herbert E. Bolton in Arredondo's Historical Proof of Spain's Title to Georgia. For his edition Bolton depended upon a manuscript copy in the Archivo General de Indias, which in the old numbering system was shelved at Est. 86, caj. 5, leg. 24. He indicated the existence of another copy at Est. 87,caj. 1, leg. 3. The present copy is, then, a third manuscript version. It varies in some particulars from the copy published by Bolton. One notable difference is that Bolton's copy was dated March 20, 1742, and the present is dated April 22, 1742. Further, the present text lacks the letter of transmittal at the end, dated in Havana, April 4, 1742, in which Juan Francisco de Guemes y Horcasitas, captain general of Havana, indicates that the work had been written by the Engineer Don Antonio de Arredondo at his request. It is obvious, then, that the present copy was made from the original draft after the copy published by Bolton had been sent off to Spain. The ornamental title page and the inclusion of the route of Hernando de Soto on the map show the additional care which was devoted to the preparation of this copy.

Medium

  • Title page (vellum), 36 leaves, folding map (vellum)

Source Collection

  • Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Online Format

  • pdf
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Chicago citation style:

Antonio De Arredondo. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Demostracion historiografica del derecho que tiene el Rey Catholico âl territorio que oy posee el Rey Britanico con el nombre de nueva Georgia en las Provincias y continente de la Florida en la que se prueba el dominio positivo que tiene el Rey de España. Havana, 1742. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-15600/.

APA citation style:

Antonio De Arredondo. (1742) Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Demostracion historiografica del derecho que tiene el Rey Catholico âl territorio que oy posee el Rey Britanico con el nombre de nueva Georgia en las Provincias y continente de la Florida en la que se prueba el dominio positivo que tiene el Rey de España. Havana. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-15600/.

MLA citation style:

Antonio De Arredondo. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Demostracion historiografica del derecho que tiene el Rey Catholico âl territorio que oy posee el Rey Britanico con el nombre de nueva Georgia en las Provincias y continente de la Florida en la que se prueba el dominio positivo que tiene el Rey de España. Havana, 1742. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss31013-15600/>.