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El Testamento de Don Hernando Colon y otros documentos para su biografía.

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El Testamento de Don Hernando Colon y otros documentos para su biografía.: The most authoritative edition of the will of Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus.

by Hernandez Diaz, José y Muro Orejón, Antonio

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xxxviii, [2], 319 pages (including black and white photographs of documents held in the Biblioteca Colombina).

Slight rubbing to top corners of the boards. Very neat paper repairs to the bottom corners of pages ix – xxiv, not touching text. Very small blemish (remains of paper label?) to front end-paper. Spanish text clean and unmarked.

Includes "the most authoritative edition of the will" of Hernando Colon/Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus (Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, London, 2019, page 343). This volume was produced to coincide with the quadricentennial anniversary of the death of Hernando Colon (the volume contains 105 documents reproduced in text format and 4 in photographic facsimiles covering 66 pages.

A note to the reader explains that previous publications have contained textual errors arising from mistakes in copies obtained from the original documents held by the Biblioteca Colombina. The intention in producing this publication was to "remedy these shortcomings, some of which are of paramount importance." A number of documents are published in facsimile for the first time – el testament de Hernando, el codicilo, el inventario de las escrituras de Hernando, las declaraciones de albacea Marcos Felipe [i.e. the executor of Hernando's estate].

With 32 pages of introduction and context to the documents, a 10-page index list of persons mentioned in the individual documents, and a 3-page index of place-names mentioned in the documents, this volume is an important and scarce resource for historians and researchers.



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Bookseller
John Atkins ES (ES)
Bookseller's Inventory #
0216
Title
El Testamento de Don Hernando Colon y otros documentos para su biografía.
Author
Hernandez Diaz, José y Muro Orejón, Antonio
Format/Binding
Green quarter leather binding with four raised bands, gilt tooling to spine, and red title label with gilt lettering. Marbled pa
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Instituto Hispano-Cubano de Historia de America
Place of Publication
Sevilla
Date Published
1941
Size
4to.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs
Columbus family;

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