Note 132 — Part II. THE EARLY DESCRIPTIONS OF AMERICA AND COLLECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THE EARLY VOYAGES THERETO.

See Vol. IV. p. 12. The editorship is in dispute,—whether Zorzi or Montalboddo. The better opinion seems to be that Humboldt erred in assigning it to Zorzi rather than to Montalboddo. Cf. Humboldt, Examen critique; Brunet, v. 1155, 1158; Sabin, Dictionary, vol. xii. no. 50,050; D’Avezac, Waltzemüller, p. 80; Graesse, Trésor; Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., nos. 48, 109, app. p. 469, and Additions, no. 26; Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, October, 1857, p. 312; Santarem’s Vespucius, Eng. tr., p. 73; Irving’s Columbus, app. xxx.; Navarrete, Opúsculos, i. 101; Harrisse, Christophe Colomb, i. 89. There are copies of this 1507 edition in the Lenox and Carter-Brown libraries, and in the Grenville Library; and one in the Beckford sale, 1882 (no. 186), brought £270. Cf. also Murphy Catalogue, no. 2,612[A], and Catalogue de la précicuse bibliothèque de feu M. le Docteur F. Court (Paris, 1884), no. 262. The Paesi novamente retrovati is shown in the chapter on the Cortereals in Vol. IV. to be of importance in elucidating the somewhat obscure story of that portion of the early Portuguese discoveries in North America. Since Vol. IV. was printed, two important contributions to this study have been made. One is the monograph of Henry Harrisse, Les Cortereal et leur voyages au Nouveau-monde. D’après des documents nouveaux ou peu connus tirés des archives de Lisbonne et de Modène. Suivi du texte inédit d’un recit de la troisième expédition de Gasper Cortereal et d’une carte nautique portugaise de 1502 reproduite ici pour la première jois. Mémoire lu à l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres dans sa séance du 1er juin, 1883, and published in Paris in 1883, as Vol. III. of the Recueil de voyages et de documents pour servir à l’histoire de la géographie depuis le XIIIe jusqu’à la fin du XVIe siècle. The other is the excerpt from the Archivo des Açores, which was drawn from that work by the editor, Ernesto do Canto, and printed separately at Ponta Delgarda (S. Miguel) in an edition of one hundred copies, under the title of Os Corte-Reaes, memoria historica accompanhada de muitos documentos ineditos. Do Canto refers (p. 34) to other monographs on the Portuguese discoveries in America as follows: Sebastião Francisco Mendo Trigoso,—Ensaio sobre os Descobrimentos e Commercio dos Portuguezes em as Terras Septentrionaes da America, presented to the Lisbon Academy (1813), and published in their Memorias da Litteratura, viii. 305. Joaquim José Gonçalves de Mattos Corrêa,—Acerca da prioridade das Descobertas feitas pelos portuguezes nas costas orientaes da America do norte, which was printed in Annaes maritimos e Coloniaes, Lisbon, 1841, pp. 269-423. Luciano Cordeiro,—De la part prise par les Portugais dans le découverte de l’Amerique, Lisbon, 1876. This was a communication made to the Congrès des Américanistes in 1875. Cf. Vol. IV. p. 15.