Fifteenth Century Sources of Influence on the Founding Fathers
The Gutenberg Bible
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.html
Malleus Maleficarum, Directions for witch hunting (1486)

Journal,
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html
Christopher Columbus, (1492). This document begins with Columbus’ statement that the reason why Isabella sponsored his voyage was for the sake of going to India to convert
Khan to Roman Catholicism.

Epistola De Insulis Nuper Inventis, http://www.usm.maine.edu/%7Emaps/columbus/translation.html
Christopher Columbus (1493)

Letter to the King and Queen of Spain, Christopher Columbus (1494) http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/columlet.html
Prince Henry VII’s Commission to John Cabot (1497) Cabot was the first Englishman to discover New England. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/cabot01.htm
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