[168] Bibl. Amer. Vet., p. xii.
[169] Ticknor Catalogue, p. 387; Stevens, Hist. Coll., vol. i. no. 1,380; Sabin, iv. 277; Leclerc, no. 132. It was noticed by Don Pascual de Gayangos in La America, April 13, 1867. Cf. another of Varnhagen’s publications, Carta de Cristóbal Colon enviada de Lisboa á Barcelona en Marzo de 1493, published at Vienna in 1869. It has a collation of texts and annotations (Leclerc, no. 131). A portion of the edition was issued with the additional imprint, “Paris, Tross, 1870.” Of the 120 copies of this book, 60 were put in the trade. Major, referring to these several Spanish texts, says: “I have carefully collated the three documents, and the result is a certain conclusion that neither one nor the other is a correct transcript of the original letter,”—all having errors which could not have been in the original. Major also translates the views on this point of Varnhagen, and enforces his own opinion that the Spanish and Latin texts are derived from different though similar documents. Varnhagen held the two texts were different forms of one letter. Harrisse dissents from this opinion in Bibl. Amer. Vet. Additions, p. vi.
[170] Cf. Irving’s Columbus, app. xxix.
[171] Prescott’s Ferdinand and Isabella, revised edition, ii. 108; Sabin, vol. ii. no. 4,918; Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, no. 7, who reprints the parts in question, with a translation.
[172] Cosmos, English translation, ii, 641.
[173] Ticknor Catalogue, p. 32.
[174] He points out how the standard Chronicles and Annals (Ferrebouc, 1521; Regnault, 1532; Galliot du Pré, 1549; Fabian, 1516, 1533, 1542, etc.), down to the middle of the sixteenth century, utterly ignored the acts of Columbus, Cortes, and Magellan (Bibl. Amer. Vet. p. ii).
[175] Murr, Histoire diplomatique de Behaim, p. 123.
[176] They are mentioned in Senarega’s “De rebus Genuensibus,” printed in Muratori’s Rerum Italicarum scriptores, xxiv. 534. Cf. Harrisse, Notes on Columbus, p. 41.
[177] Harrisse says that when Tross, of Paris, advertised a copy at a high price in 1865, there were seven bidders for it at once. Quaritch advertised a copy in June, 1871. It was priced in London in 1872 at £140.