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Illustrative woodcut from the Latin edition of Columbus's letter printed in Basel in 1494. [1]A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the completion of his first voyage across the Atlantic, which set out in 1492 and reached the Americas.
Letter written from Jamaica ("Janahica" in the text) on July 7, 1503 recounting the fourth voyage. Two versions of this document were previously known, one in Spanish called Manuscrito de Salamanca and the other in Italian, nicknamed the "Lettera Rarissima", but the text in the Copy Book shows substantial differences with respect to them. [22]
The following is a sample from Cantar de Mio Cid (lines 330–365), with abbreviations resolved, punctuation (the original has none), and some modernized letters. [15] Below is the original Old Spanish text in the first column, along with the same text in Modern Spanish in the second column and an English translation in the third column.
The uppercase letter S: In Japan, this letter is often written with a single serif added to the end of the stroke. The uppercase letter Z : This letter is usually written with three strokes. In parts of Europe such as Italy, Germany and Spain, it is commonly written with a short horizontal crossbar added through the middle.
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Signed Spanish and Signed Exact Spanish are any of several manually coded forms of Spanish that apply the words (signs) of a national sign language to Spanish word order or grammar. In Mexico, Signed Spanish uses the signs of Mexican Sign Language ; [ 1 ] in Spain, it uses the signs of Spanish Sign Language , and there is a parallel Signed ...
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