Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 5620

History of the Indies Facsimile Edition

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The History of the Indies was begun in 1527 by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas during his abbacy of the Convent of Puerto de Plata in the Dominican Republic. It was completed in 1561 while he was working at the Colegio de San Gregorio. Primarily an eye-witness account, it chronicles the Spanish colonization of the West Indies in three volumes, each focusing on a decade from Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492 to 1520. It notably includes Casas's apology for his earlier advocacy of the enslavement of Africans.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "History of the Indies": Historia en Español de las Indias del Nuovo Mondo facsimile edition, published by Guillermo Blazquez, 1996

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Manuscript book description compiled by Dongwon Esther Kim.
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Historia en Español de las Indias del Nuovo Mondo

Madrid: Guillermo Blazquez, 1996

  • Commentary (Spanish) by Nieto Nuño, Miguel
  • Limited Edition: 750 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, History of the Indies: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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Full-leather with blind and gold embossing.

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