Christopher Columbus, his own book of privileges, 1502
Subtitle: photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the archives of the Foreign Office in Paris, now for the first time published, with expanded text, translation into English and an historical introduction
By: the transliteration and translation by George F. Barwick ; the introduction by Henry Harrisse ; the whole compiled and edited, with preface, by Benjamin Franklin Stevens.
Contributors: Barwick, G. F. 1853-1931.; Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910.; Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902.; Spain. Sovereign (1479-1504 : Ferdinand V and Isabella I); Henry Harrisse Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: B.F. Stevens
Published: 1893
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish; Spain -- Charters, grants, privileges; Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516 -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Codex diplomaticus of Christopher Columbus
Notes: "The original Codex on vellum is written on both sides of the leaf, and is here reproduced in same same form, but is interleaved with corresponding pages of transliteration and translation"--P. [9].
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.
Includes index.
Thacher, II, p. 9 (Americana)