Note 739 — Chapter III

[A copy of this, which belonged to Ferdinand Columbus, is in the Cathedral Library at Seville. The book is so scarce that Muñoz used a manuscript copy; and from Muñoz’ manuscript the one used by Prescott was copied. Maisonneuve (1882 Catalogue, no. 2,980) has recently priced a copy at 600 francs. There is a copy in the Carter-Brown Library (Catalogue, vol. i. no. 65), and was sold the present year in the Court sale (no. 362). It was reprinted in 1522, 1526 (Murphy, no, 2,580), and 1535,—the last priced by Maisonneuve (no. 2,981) at 400 francs. Cf. Harrisse, Bibl. Amer. Vet., nos. 98, 114, 137, 205, and Additions, no. 59. The Carter-Brown Catalogue (i. 119) puts a Venice edition, without date, under 1536. Ternaux gives a French translation in his Relations et mémoires, vol. x. Icazbalceta has given a Spanish version from the Italian, together with the Italian text, in his Coleccion de documentos para la historia de México, i. 281; also see his introduction, p. xv. He points out the errors of Ternaux’s version. Cf. Bandelier’s “Bibliography of Yucatan” in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc. (October, 1880), p. 82. Harrisse in his Bibl. Amer. Vet., Additions, no. 60, cites a Lettera mādata della insula de Cuba, 1520, which he says differs from the account of Juan Diaz.—Ed.]