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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. [Copy of a letter to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici

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Title

  • Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. [Copy of a letter to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici

Names

  • Amerigo Vespucci

Created / Published

  • Seville, July 27 (erroneous, for July 18), 1500

Headings

  • -  Amerigo Vespucci--correspondence
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  This letter has previously been known in two manuscript copies of the early 16th century, made by or for Piero Vagliente (Bibl. Riccardiana 2112 and 2112 bis) and was first published in 1745 by Angelo Maria Bandini in his Vita e lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. The text of this letter, when compared to the Vagliente text as printed in Bandini, shows many variants and is clearly very corrupt. Nevertheless, since it represents a separate manuscript tradition, it deserves careful study and collation with the Vagliente text, as it may preserve more correct readings in some instances. The compiler notes on leaf 2v that he found this letter and the fragment which follows among “our old papers,” apparently in the family archive. It is likely this was the archive of the Strozzi family. The volume bears a manuscript ex libris of Giovanni Strozzi. It is known that the Strozzi papers contained another Vespucci letter as well as several other manuscripts about the Vespucci family. (See Bandini, p. xiv, xx, xxiii, xxv, and xxvi.)

Medium

  • Leaves 2r-8v

Source Collection

  • Hans Peter Kraus collection of Spanish American documents, 1433-1877

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Chicago citation style:

Amerigo Vespucci. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. Copy of a letter to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici. Seville, July 27 erroneous, for, 1500. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mss31013-11802/.

APA citation style:

Amerigo Vespucci. (1500) Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. Copy of a letter to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici. Seville, July 27 erroneous, for. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/mss31013-11802/.

MLA citation style:

Amerigo Vespucci. Hans Peter Kraus Collection: Lettere di Amerigo Vespucci. Copy of a letter to Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici. Seville, July 27 erroneous, for, 1500. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/mss31013-11802/>.