Documenta selecta e tabulario secreto vaticano quae romanorum pontificum erga Americae ́populos curam ac studia tumante tum paullo post insulas a Christophoro Columbo repertas testantur phototypia descripta
Publisher: typis Vaticanis
Published: 1893
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 4444
Subjects: Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Papal Bulls; Facsimiles; Discovery and exploration; Sources; History; Catholic Church
Notes: Collation by pages: 1 p. l. (title); [1] p. (list of contents); 1-44 p. numbered in duplicate (printed text and facsimiles of mss. on opposite pages).

Compiled by J.C. Heywood, as a contribution to the World's Fair, 1893.

Includes the papal bulls granting to Spain the lands discovered by Columbus. For description of these bulls, and an English translation(also information in regard to the present compilation) cf. Thacher, J.B. Christopher Columbus, his life, his work, his remains, as revealed by original ... records. 1903. v.2.

"Viginti quinque exemplaria ita sunt adornata ut illustrioribus tantum bibliothecis distribuerentur.

Error in arrangement and numbering of printed text p. 22-23. Printed text p. 38 repeated, and printed text p. 39 omitted. The numbering of facsimiles is correct.
Table of contents: title: I. De Episcopatu gardensi in Gronlandia.; title: II. De finibus inter Hispaniae et Lusitaniae regna constituendis.; title: III. De praeconibus evangelii et episcopis transmittendis.; title: IV. Commendantur Bartholomaeus et Didacus Colon.