_ 572 _ The Tractado de Spera do mundo of Sacrobosco (Lisbon, 1500), the De situ orbis habitabilibus of Dionísius Periegetes (1477), the De imagine mundi of Pedro de Allíaco (1483), the Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemy (Ulm, 1482), the Germania of Tacitus (Nuremberg, 1473), the Historia rerum ubique gestarum of Aeneas Silvius (Pius II) of 1477, the Cosmographia of Pomponius Mela (1478), Marco Polo, Strabo, Jean de Monteville, Toscanelli, H. Tucher, G. Glockendon, etc, and of course the “Erdapfel”of Behaim and the Astrolabe of Regiomontano (1436-1476). During this visit Dr Stephan Waetzoldt, a member of the German National Museum staff, pointed out to me No 26 in Section D, an unpublished letter of Valentim Femandes, written in Lisbon on 26 June 1510, and sent to his friend, the merchant Stefan Gabler of Nuremberg,held in the Museum Archive, catalogued as, Akten Nümberg XI, 1275-1784. Dr Waetzoldt had the document brought from the exhibition area for me to examine in his office and kindly agreed to have it microfilmed. Enlargements were made Valentim Femandes’ letter in Lisbon, but this did not solve the difficulties of publishing the unpublished document. Someone had to be found who could do to read the diplomatic hand of the manuscript and make a translation into Portuguese. This was by no means an easy task. It is a text in early XVI century German, full
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