LEADER 03932nam 2200601 450 001 9910809596903321 005 20230807205920.0 010 $a1-78284-037-0 010 $a1-78284-039-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000571523 035 $a(EBL)4306788 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001591874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16290750 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14041317 035 $a(PQKB)10573271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4306788 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4306788 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11137852 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL848785 035 $a(OCoLC)935255278 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000571523 100 $a20150310d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe mythical Indies and Columbus's apocalyptic letter $eimagining the Americas in the late Middle Ages /$fElizabeth Moore Willingham 210 1$aBrighton :$cSussex Academic Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (426 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84519-700-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword: 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. 330 2 $a"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's epistolary announcement travelled from country to country in a late-medieval media event--and the rest, as has been observed, is history. The Letter has long been the object of speculation concerning its authorship and intention: British historian Cecil Jane questions whether Columbus could read and write prior to the first voyage while Demetrio Ramos argues that King Ferdinand and a minister composed the Letter and had it printed in the Spanish folio. The Letter has figured in studies of Spanish imperialism and of discovery and colonial period history, but it also offers insights into Columbus's passions and motives as he reinvents himself and retails his vision of Peter Martyr's Novus orbis to men and women for whom Columbus was as unknown as the places he claimed to have visited. The central feature of the book is its annotated variorum edition of the Spanish Letter, together with an annotated English translation and word and name glossaries"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aExplorers$zAmerica$vCorrespondence 606 $aExplorers$zSpain$vCorrespondence 607 $aAmerica$vEarly works to 1800 607 $aAmerica$xDiscovery and exploration$xSpanish$vSources 615 0$aExplorers 615 0$aExplorers 676 $a970.01/5092 700 $aWillingham$b Elizabeth M$g(Elizabeth Moore),$01689850 701 2$aColumbus$b Christopher$0817549 701 2$aColumbus$b Christopher$0817549 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809596903321 996 $aThe mythical Indies and Columbus's apocalyptic letter$94065200 997 $aUNINA