A wide parchment sheet written in dense lines of Latin script, headed by the name Alexander in very large decorated letters, with a few signatures and a small oval stamp near the bottom
The bull Inter caetera of 4 May 1493, the original on parchment sent to Castile. The pope's name is written in large ornamented capitals across the first line; the subscriptions of the chancery officials, among them L. Podocatharus at the lower right, stand at the foot. Archivos Estatales (PARES) photograph; the Commons description places the document in the Archivo General de Simancas, while Davenport (1917) locates the original in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville (Patronato 1-1-1, no. 3).Papal chancery of Alexander VI; photograph Archivos Estatales, Ministerio de Cultura (Spain), via Wikimedia Commons, 1493 (document) · Public domain (PD-old-100) · Wikimedia Commons

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