Select letters of Christopher Columbus (Registro nro. 118540)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | E011 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Columbus, Christopher, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1451-1506 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Select letters of Christopher Columbus |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-01-30 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Select letters of Christopher Columbus" by Christopher Columbus is a collection of historical letters written in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Presented in translation with supporting editorial material, it gathers firsthand accounts of his four voyages to the New World alongside related contemporary documents, illuminating routes, encounters, and the hardships of exploration.<br/><br/>The opening of this volume begins with a transcriber’s note and an editor’s preface in which R. H. Major defends his earlier work and the Hakluyt Society against J. A. Froude’s public criticisms. It then launches into a broad introduction surveying real and supposed pre-Columbian discoveries—from classical hints and the Atlantis legend to Chinese, Norse, Arab, Welsh, Venetian (Zeno), Portuguese, and Danish claims—before affirming Columbus’s singular achievement in vision, method, and impact. The introduction proceeds to sketch his background and studies, influences such as Toscanelli and Pierre d’Ailly, his years in Portugal and marriage at Porto Santo, the failed appeal to King John II and departure for Spain, the support won at La Rábida and at court amid theological scrutiny in Salamanca, and the delays preceding the 1492 voyage. It closes this opening stretch by noting debates over his first landfall in the Bahamas and weighing competing identifications proposed by later scholars and navigators. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: The Hakluyt Society, 1870 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Early works to 1800 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Columbus, Christopher, 1451-1506 -- Correspondence |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Major, Richard Henry, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1818-1891 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/selectlettersofc00colu/page/n15/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/selectlettersofc00colu/page/n15/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77820">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77820</a> |
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