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  • Huerta de Colon
  • Washington Irving’s manuscript note sewn into Columbus’s copy of Pierre D’Aylli’s Tractatus de ymagine mundi ([Lovanii: Johanes de Westfalia, ca. 1477-1483]). The volume has manuscript marginalia by Columbus and his brother.
  • Folding map of Tenochtitlan, within the Latin translation of Cortés letters (Praeclara Ferdinādi Cortesii de noua maris Oceani Hyspania narratio Sacratissimo ac Inuictissimo Carolo romanorū imperatori… [Impresa in … Norimberga: per Fridericum Peypus], 1524, q.v.). Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • De consuetudinibus et conditionibus orientalium regionum. [Goudae : Gerardus Leeu, ca. 1483-1484]. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • De consuetudinibus et conditionibus orientalium regionum. [Goudae : Gerardus Leeu, ca. 1483-1484].
  • Luciani Samosatensis Saturnalia (Basel: Frobenius, 1521).
  • Hernán Cortés. Praeclara Ferdinādi Cortesii de noua maris Oceani Hyspania narratio Sacratissimo ac Inuictissimo Carolo romanorū imperatori… [Impresa in … Norimberga: per Fridericum Peypus], 1524
  • Early map of La Hispaniola. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • Washington Irving’s manuscript note sewn into Columbus’s copy of Pierre D’Aylli’s Tractatus de ymagine mundi ([Lovanii: Johanes de Westfalia, ca. 1477-1483]), with a quotation from Bartolomé de Las Casas where the Dominican acknowledges that he had examined and used this copy for the elaboration of his Historia de las Indias. The volume has manuscript marginalia by Columbus and his brother. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. Historia rerum ubique gestarum.-[Venetiis: per Johannem de Colonia sociumque eius Iohannem Manthen de Gherretzem, 1477]. Columbus’s copy of Piccolomini’s unfinished Historia rerum, an ambitious geographical and ethnographic description of the known world. The volume contains marginalia by Columbus and his brother, as well as other materials (such as the Latin letter by the Italian cosmographer Toscanelli to Fernando Martínez, a quotation from Agustine’s City of God, another quotation from Josephus’ De antiquitate, a Jewish chronology of the creation of the world and a planisphere)
  • Hernando’s copy of Erasmus’s Antibarbarorum liber unus (Basel: Frobenius, 1520), which the Dutch scholar gave him when they met on 7 October 1520. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • Hernando’s manuscript note in his copy of Erasmus’s Antibarbarorum liber unus (Basel: Frobenius, 1520), which the Dutch scholar gave him when they met on 7 October 1520. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • Historia naturale / di C. Plinio Secondo; tradocta di lingua latina in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino Fiorentino. Impresso in Venesia: per Bartolamio de Zani de Portesio , 12 September 1489. Columbus’s annotated copy of the Italian translation of Pliny’s Natural History by the Italian humanist Christophoro Landino.
  • Portrait of Hernando Colón. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • Hernando’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia (Rome: B. Venetus de Vitalibus, 1508), with Johann Ruysch’s mappamundi. Purchased by Hernando in Rome, July 1512. His manuscript note in page 95 reads 'Costó en Roma 28 carlines por julio de 1512. Número de registro 3527'. Reproduced with permission from the Cabildo Catedral de Sevilla. Biblioteca Capitular Colombina.
  • Hernando's Design for his Tomb. Reproduced with Permission from the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla
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