Title from printed catalog. Support: Paper. Script: Secretary. Layout: One gathering; 34-37 long lines, frame ruled in dry point. Watermark(s): Armoiries, similar to Briquet 1821 but with chain lines vertical in relation to the watermark. Assigned Date: s. XVIin. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 1/14/2012. Written in Seville in 1502. The Genoa Codex states that in 1502 4 copies of this document were made: 3 on parchment and 1 on paper. The 3 parchment copies are now identified as the Genoa Codex, the Paris Codex, and the Washington Codex, but the paper copy was thought lost. Extant copies on paper (mainly extracts) are: the Veragua Codex (belonging to the descendants of Columbus), the Providence... There are no signatures or notarial markings on this copy; an endorsement on the upper left corner of f. 1 bears the name of Hipólito Colón and "No. 13." Purchased from a bookseller in Spain by Maggs Bros.; Maggs, Catalogue 442 (1923) n. 1724, with reproduction of f. 1 on frontispiece, to Otto Vollbehr.
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