Historie del S.D. Fernando Colombo
Subtitle: nelle quali s'ha particolare, & vera relatione della vita, & de' fatti dell'Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo padre: et dello scoprimento, ch'egli fece dell'Indie Occidentali, dette Mondo Nuovo, hora possedute dal Sereniss. Re catolico
By: nuouamente di lingua spagnuola tradotte nell'italiana dal S. Alfonso Vlloa
Contributors: Ulloa, Alfonso de, d. 1580; Pané, Ramón, d. 1571
Publisher: Appresso Francesco de' Franceschi Sanese
Published: 1571
Place of publication: In Venezia, M D LXXI
Language: ita
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Indian linguistics; Taino language; Indians of the West Indies; Spanish; Early works to 1600; Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration
Work titles: Historie
Notes: Translation of the original Spanish ms., which was never published. Cf. Church catalogue.

The 'Venice 1569' copy at Princeton (as noted in the Library of Congress Catalog) is reported by the Curator of Rare Books to be an altered copy, probably of the Venice 1709 edition.

Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴ A-2H⁸ (leaves c4 and 2H8 blank)

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"Scrittura di fra Roman [i.e. Ramón Pané] della antichitá de gl'Indiani [di San Dominico]": leaves 126v-145v. Pané's account contains numerous words in Taino.

Errata: leaf [19] verso (1st count)

Includes index.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 1:244.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 571/8.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 57209.

Streit, R.  Bib. Missionum, 2:574.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 114.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: final blank leaf wanting. Leaves 123-126 misbound as 124, 123, 126, 125.