Gomez Hernandez Catoira 'Relacion del Viaje y Descubrymyento ...'; 19 November 1567-11 September 1569; transcription of the original manuscript, transcribed by Richard E. Kirk, March 1872

DLMSQ 654

fonds

1872

942406

1 volume of textual material (220 p.) - manuscript, bound in dark red half leather - 33 cm.

Gomez Hernandex Catoira was chief purser and official chronicler of the expedition to the South Pacific, 1567-1569, led by Don Alvaro de Mendana, during which the Solomon Islands were discovered

Manuscript transcription by Richard E. G. Kirk of the original manuscript in the British Museum. (B.M. Add. MS.9944 ff. 197-223). In Spanish. With editorial corrections. this transcription was used for the Hakluyt Society's publication 'The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendana in 1568', London, 1901, vol. 2 which see for English translation

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Original manuscript in the British Museum

Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.

Binder's title : Catoira MS.
Sir William Dixson's bookplate
Notes by Sir William Dixson removed
Transferred from DLSPENCER 81