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Proceedings of record of law-suit over property of land, Santo Domingo, 1552.

Script style: "Humanística cursiva" (Italian humanistic, Italicized). Date and place: March 16, 1553 or later possibly in Segovia (Colombia). Content: Diary or travel log of a sailing from Santo Domingo to Coro (Venezuela) to Borburatá and Segovia (Colombia). Author: Melchor Gruvel, German entrepreneur co-investor in a gold-searching enterprise in Nueva Granada (Colombia) with Juan Soderín, resident of Santo Domingo. Source: Archivo General de Indis, Escribanía de Cámara, 1-B, fo. 398r bis.

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