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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>Autograph</dd>
<dd>Ms. includes: 1. Metsiv gevulot ʻamim (leaves 1-76) -- 2. Ha-India ha-ḥadashah - part I (77-176) -- 3. Ha-India ha-ḥadashah - part II (177-296) -- 4. Shirim (297-299) -- 5. Mikhtav limud (299-301)</dd>
<dd>The text was published by M. Lazar based on Ms. Kiaḥ, Paris, "Sefer ha-Indiʼah ha-Ḥadashah ; Ṿe-Sefer Fernando Ḳorṭeś, 1553 : Nusaḥ ʻIvri shel Toldot Peru u-Meḳsiḳo bi-yede Yosef ha-Kohen, 1568," California, 2002</dd>
<dd>The story of the acquisition of the Ms., as well as a description of it, and a example of its translation of the "Historia General de las Indias," was published by R. Gottheil, Columbus in Jewish Literature, "Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society", 2 (1892), p. 129-137. Mr. Gottheil bought the Ms. and presented it to the Columbia University Library</dd>
<dd>The Ms. is in poor condition. A large part of the translation of the "Historia General de las Indias" is seriously damaged by the ink which has eaten into the paper, and in some pages almost nothing is left</dd>
<dd>An illegible censor's signature, dated 1607, is found on the last leaf: "Angelo ..., Bella Silla ..."</dd>
<dd>Manuscript written on paper in Sefaradic handwriting</dd>
<dd>Mendelsohn, I. Descriptive catalogue of Semitic manuscripts</dd>
<dd>A translation of Francisco López de Gómara's "Historia General de las Indias," part I. The title page, on leaf 77, has an ornamental name: "Descriptio Novi Orbis." This is followed by a glossary (leaves 77b-78b) of strange words and fruits from "Indias" (Spanish) to Hebrew</dd></dl><p><b>Columbia University Catalog: </b>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/11561510">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/11561510</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;
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<br>Subjects: Manners and customs; Geography; Manuscripts, Hebrew</div>
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<dl><dd>Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578</dd>
<dd>Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578. Mikhtav limud</dd>
<dd>Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578. Shirim</dd>
<dd>Joseph, ha-Kohen, 1496-1578. Metsiv gevulot ʻamim</dd>
<dd>López de Gómara, Francisco, 1511-1564. Historia general de las Indias</dd></dl></div>
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