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[Letter of Columbus to Luis de Santangel, dated 15 February, 1493
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- Boston, [publisher not identified], [1919]
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- facsimile: 12 unnumbered pages ; 38 cm
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- ocm40672361
- Spanish text, without title.
- Text begins: Senor por que se que aureis plazer dela grand vitoria que nuestro señor me ha dado en mi viaie vos escriu ̀esta por la qēl sabreys como en ueinte dias pase A las idias cõ la armada q̃ los illustrissimos Rey e Reyna ñros señores me dieron dõde yo falle muy muchas Islas pobladas cõ gente sin numero ...
- At end: Fecha en la calauera sobre las yslas de canaria a XV de febrero año Mil.cccclxxxxii. Fara lo que mandareys El Almirãte Anima que venia dentro en la Carta ... fecha ha quatorze dias de marzo; ESTA Carta en bio colom A' escriuano Deraciõ de las Islas Halladas en las Indias: Cõtenida A Otra de Sus Altezas.
- The text of the letter (4 leaves) is followed by 8 leaves (1 blank) reproduced from two fragmentary Latin mss., first, a life of St. Leocadia, second, an appeal presented to the Archduke Philip at Bruges, May 12, 1497, by Johannes Rousselli, lord of Hernetes. For description of the Columbus letter, and the accompanying mss. cf. J. B. Thacher, Christopher Columbus ... v.2, p. 10-27; also The Spanish letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant' Angel ... lately in the possession of Bernard Quartich. 1893.
- One of 10 photostat copies reproduced from the original in the New York Public Library, September 1919.