The mythical Indies and Columbus's apocalyptic letter : : imagining the Americas in the late Middle Ages / / Elizabeth Moore Willingham.
"With his Letter of 1493 to the court of Spain, Christopher Columbus heralded his first voyage to the present-day Americas, creating visions that seduced the European imagination and birthing a fascination with those 'new' lands and their inhabitants that continues today. Columbus...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Brighton : : Sussex Academic Press,, 2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (426 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Aims and apparatus
- An introduction to Columbus's letter
- Discovery and commerce : a letter in folio
- A slippery job : identifying the folio's printer
- Lasting impressions : the initial and the types
- The letter goes abroad : the Roman connection
- Lost, found, and yet undiscovered : peninsular quartos
- Manuscripts : real and imagined
- Reading the Variorum
- A Variorum edition of the Spanish folio
- Debriefing : ink and paper, men, and stemma
- An English translation of the folio
- Parsing the reading
- Columbus and his apocalyptic letter
- Guide to abbreviations, frequent short references, proper names and symbols
- Glossary
- Publications of the Columbus letter
- Incunabula and early sixteenth-century books cited.