Manuscript poem in Italian, being a long biographical account of Columbus

by Christopher Columbus

$85,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Manuscript on paper. Quarto 164 x 220 mm , structured with a ternion and a bifolium nested inside of a ternion, 14 leaves. Text written in brown ink in an Italian humanistic italic hand. Circa 1800 inscription at head of first leaf, by a dealer or collector: “Questo Quinterno parla di Galeazzo Sforza, di Lodovico XII, Consalvo di Cordova e Colombo.”. Disbound, evidence of contemporary stitching. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco solander box with blue cloth sides, and matching

• Binding: Leather

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