[178] This view is controverted in The Bookworm, 1868, p. 9. Cf. 1867, p. 103. The ships are said to be galleys, while Columbus sailed in caravels.
[179] But compare his Cooke Catalogue, no. 575; also, Pinart-Bourbourg Catalogue, p. 249.
[180] M. de Rosny was born in 1810, and died in 1871. M. Geslin published a paper on his works in the Actes de la Société d’Ethnologie, vii. 115. A paper by Rosny on the “Lettre de Christoph Colombe,” with his version, is found in the Revue Orientale et Américaine, Paris, 1876, p. 81.
[181] The earliest English version of this letter followed some one edition of the Cosco-Sanchez text, and appeared in the Edinburgh Review in 1816, and was reprinted in the Analectic Magazine, ix. 513. A translation was also appended by Kettell to his edition of the Personal Narrative. There is another in the Historical Magazine, April, 1865, ix. 114.
[182] It was priced by Rich in 1844 at £6 6s.; and by Robert Clarke, of Cincinnati, in 1876, at $200. There was a copy in the J. J. Cooke sale (1883), vol. iii. no. 574, and another in the Murphy sale, no. 2,602.
[183] Sabin, vol. v. no. 18,656; Major, p. xc, where the poem is reprinted, as also in Harrisse’s Notes on Columbus, p. 186; Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 8, p. 461. This first edition has sixty-seven octaves; the second, sixty-eight. Stevens’s Hist. Coll., vol. i. no. 129, shows a fac-simile of the imperfect first edition.
[184] Notes on Columbus, p. 185; Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 9; Additions, no. 3; Lenox’s Scyllacius, p. lii. The last stanza is not in the other edition, and there are other revisions. A fac-simile of the cut on the title of this Oct. 26, 1493, edition is annexed. Other fac-similes are given by Lenox, and Ruge in his Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen, p. 247. This edition was reprinted at Bologna, 1873, edited by Gustavo Uzíelli, as no. 136 of Scelta di curiosità letterarie inedite, and a reprint of Cosco’s Latin text was included.
[185] Lenox’s Scyllacius, p. lv, with fac-similes of the cuts; Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 19; Notes on Columbus, p. 123; Huth, i. 337. The elder Harris made a tracing of this edition, and Stevens had six copies printed from stone; and of these, copies are noted in the C. Fiske-Harris Catalogue, no. 553; Murphy, no. 632; Brinley, no. 14; Stevens’s (1870) Catalogue, no. 459; and Hist. Coll., vol. i. nos. 130, 131. The text was reprinted in the Rheinisches Archiv, xv. 17. It was also included in Ein schöne newe Zeytung, printed at Augsburg about 1522, of which there are copies in the Lenox and Carter-Brown libraries. Scyllacius, p. lvi; Brunet, Supplément, col. 277; Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 115. The latest enumeration of these various editions is in the Studi biog. e bibliog. della Soc. Geog. Ital., 2d edition, Rome, 1882, p. 191, which describes some of the rare copies.
[186] Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., no. 175; Carter-Brown, no. 105; Lenox, Scyllacius, p. lviii; Stevens, Hist. Coll., vol. i. no. 163, and Bibl. Geog., no. 2,383; Muller (1872), no. 387; J. J. Cooke, no. 2,183; O’Callaghan, no. 1,836. The letter is on pages 116-121 of the Bellum, etc. The next earliest reprint is in Andreas Schott’s Hispaniæ illustratæ, Frankfort, 1603-1608, vol. ii. (Sabin, vol. viii. no. 32,005; Muller, 1877, no. 2,914; Stevens, 1870, no. 1,845). Of the later reproductions in other languages than English, mention may be made of those in Amati’s Ricerche Storico-Critico-Scientifiche, 1828-1830; Bossi’s Vita di Colombo, 1818; Urano’s edition of Bossi, Paris, 1824 and 1825; the Spanish rendering of a collated Latin text made by the royal librarian Gonzalez for Navarrete, and the French version in the Paris edition of Navarrete; G. B. Torre’s Scritti di Colombo, Lyons, 1864; Cartas y testamento di Colon, Madrid, 1880. There is in Muratori’s Rerum Italicarum scriptores (iii. 301) an account “De navigatione Columbi,” written in 1499 by Antonio Gallo, of Genoa; but it adds nothing to our knowledge, being written entirely from Columbus’s own letters.
The earliest compiled account from the same sources which appeared in print was issued, while Columbus was absent on his last voyage, in the Nouissime Hystoriarum omnium repercussiones, que supplementum Supplementi Cronicarum nuncupantur ... usque in annum 1502, of Jacopo Filippo Foresti (called Bergomenses, Bergomas, or some other form), which was dated at Venice, 1502 (colophon, 1503), and contained a chapter “De insulis in India,” on leaf 441, which had not been included in the earlier editions of 1483, 1484, 1485, 1486, and 1493, but is included in all later editions (Venice, 1506; Nuremberg, 1506; Venice, 1513, 1524; Paris, 1535), except the Spanish translation (Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., nos. 42, 138, 204, and Additions, nos. 11, 75; Sabin, vol. vi. nos. 25,083, 25,084; Stevens, 1870, no. 175, $11; Carter-Brown, vol. i. nos. 19, 27; Murphy, no. 226; Quaritch, no. 11,757, £4). There are copies in the Library of Congress, the Carter-Brown and Lenox libraries, and in the National Library in Paris.