Black letter: 33 and 34 lines to the full page. Without signature-marks, foliation, catchwords or register. At end of text, recte of fourth leaf: Usle Uils[?]bong pridie idus Martij. Chris[?]toforus Colom Oceans clas[?]s[?]is Prefectus. On verse of fourth leaf: Epigramma. R.L. de Corbaria Epis[?]copl Montis[?]palus[?]ij. Ad inuicitis[?]s[?]imum Regem His[?]paniarum.General note: The binding is English by Riviere, c. 1900, of brown goat with blind tooled panels on both boards. In 1990 copy was loaned to the Huntington Library conservation department for treatment. According to the conservation treatment report, the textblock was disbound from the cover, endsheets separated from the printed text pages, the leaves reattached with Japanese tissue, and a triple fold of Edinburgh paper folded around the section and sewn, with the outer Edinburgh leaves pasted down to boards to secure the textblock back into the binding. Some leaves reversed during conservation. This is the so-called "Ferdinand" edition of the Latin version of Columbus' letter to Rafael [i.e. Gabriel?] Sánchez, printed at Rome by Stephen Plannck, 1493. For information concerning its relation to the various other early editions of this letter, see the preface by Wilberforce Eames to the Lenox Library's facsimile of the first pictorial edition.
![Epistola Christofori Colom: cui etas nostra multum debet: de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper invetis. ... Leander de Cosco ab Hispano idiomate in Latinum couertit: tertio kalen[das] Maij. M.cccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri Sexti anno primo](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-gZxNxbs/1/L/i-gZxNxbs-L.jpg)
![Epistola Christofori Colom: cui etas nostra multum debet: de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper invetis. ... Leander de Cosco ab Hispano idiomate in Latinum couertit: tertio kalen[das] Maij. M.cccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri Sexti anno primo](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-8L7trS3/1/L/i-8L7trS3-L.jpg)
![Epistola Christofori Colom: cui etas nostra multum debet: de insulis Indie supra Gangem nuper invetis. ... Leander de Cosco ab Hispano idiomate in Latinum couertit: tertio kalen[das] Maij. M.cccc.xciij. Pontificatus Alexandri Sexti anno primo](https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-BPcC8rj/1/L/i-BPcC8rj-L.jpg)