Bibliography Record
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Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de
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Dela natural hystoria delas Indias.
Toledo, Remón de Petras: leaves i-lii + 3. Feb. 15, 1526.
–Allen 3. Many later eds. & transls.; e.g., Univ. North Carolina Studs. Romance Langs. Lits. No. 32: xvii + 140, 1959 (Engl.). No. 85 in the same series (1969) is a facsimile of the 1526 ed. Often known as the "Sumario", this work is a sort of summary of the first part (the first 19 books) of the Historia General (Oviedo, 1535). This "brief description of America, which he wrote on a visit home in 1526, proved so good that he was made official chronicler of 'The Indies,' and in 1535 appeared the first volume of his Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Oviedo had uncommon powers of observation, and his descriptions of West Indian fauna and flora are illustrated by his own sketches" (Morison, 1942). He spent 34 years in different parts of the Caribbean, and his descriptions are evidently based on personal observation, unlike that of P. Martyr (1516); see Whitehead (1977: 168). However, the account of the manatee given here (leaf xlviii; 30 lines) is brief in comparison with that in Oviedo (1535). Durand (1983: 31) quotes the manatee passages from cap. lxxxiii of this ed.
For more on this and other eds. of Oviedo's works, see Daymond Turner, "Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: an annotated bibliography", Univ. North Carolina Studs. Romance Langs. Lits. No. 66: xvii + 61, 1967.
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Oviedo, G.F. de (TMM; West Indies) |
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Trichechus manatus Linnaeus, 1758
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Oviedo, G.F. de (hunting) |
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(SEE ALSO: Caribbean Sea; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico)
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Oviedo, G.F. de (TMM) |
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