Epistola Christofori Colom. cui [a]etas nostra multu[m] debet
Subtitle: de insulis Indi[a]e supra Gangem nuper inuentis : ad quas perquirendas octauo antea mense auspicijs et [a]ere inuictissimi Fernandi Hispaniarum Regis missus fuerat : ad magnificum d[omi]n[u]m Raphaelem Sanxis eiusdem serenissimi Regis Tesaurariu[m] missa
By: quam nobilis ac litteratus vir Aliander de Cosco ab Hispano ideomate in Latinum conuertit, tertio kal[enda]s Maii. M.cccc.xciii Pontificatus Alexandri Sexti anno primo
Contributors: Cosco, Leandro di, translator; Sanchez, Gabriel, -1505; Plannck, Stephan, active 15th century, printer; Carninis, Leonardus de; Aspinwall, Thomas, 1786-1876, former owner; Barlow, Samuel L. M. (Samuel Latham Mitchill), 1826-1889, former owner
Publisher: Stephan Plannck
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Rome
Language: lat
Subjects: Correspondence; Sources; Early works to 1800; Indians of the West Indies; Spanish; History; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Epistola Christofori Colom cui aetas nostra multum debet; De insulis Indiae supra Gangem nuper inuentis; De insulis Indiae supra Gangem nuper inventis; Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Columbus's letter to Gabriel Sanchez upon his return from his first voyage.

Caption title.

Imprint from Goff and ISTC.

"Epigramma R.L. de Corbaria episcopi Montispalusis ad invictissimum regem Hispaniarum": p. [8].

Without foliation, signatures, or catchwords.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, C757

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7173

Incunabula short title catalogue, ic00757000

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 3A

20151208 cataloged jmoschella

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in ca. 19th-century brown goatskin panelled and tooled in gilt and blind. The spine is ruled and stamped in gilt. The bookplate of Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow is present on the front pastedown. In this copy, the second and third leaves have been bound out of order.