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circa 1400-1500
Unknown
[Antiphon]
Single sheet of music. Date inferred. An antiphon is a verse usually from Scripture sung before and after a canticle or psalm as part of the liturgy.
GLC00496.124
4 May 1493
Alexander VI, Pope (1431-1503)
[Demarcation bull, granting Spain possession of lands discovered by Columbus]
Broadside entitled "Copia de la bula del decreto y concession q[ue] hizo el papa / Alexandro sexto al Rey y la Reyna nuestros senores de las Indias conforme al capitu." Unique copy of second version possibly printed at Valladolio, by Francisco...
GLC04093
1552
Casas, Bartolomé de las, (1474-1566)
Aqui se Contiene una Disputa, o Controversia [Second Edition]
The fifth tract on the conquest of the New World and rights of the Indians. In Spanish.
GLC04220
1858
Powell, William Henry, (1823-1879)
De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi.
One engraving entitled "De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi" dated 1858. Depicts De Soto, riding a white horse, arriving at the Mississippi River at a point below Natchez on May 8,1541. Native Americans watch in front of their tepees, and a chief...
GLC08878.0002
1493
Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506)
Epistola Christofori Colom... de insulis Indie supra Gangem.... [exploration]
First edition, in Latin, second (corrected) issue, printed at Rome after 29 April 1493. Gothic type; 33 lines per page. Pamphlet printing letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain concerning his first voyage to America, the so-called...
GLC01427
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