News of '46'

Ambraseys (2009) describes the News of '46' as a 16th century Spanish Manuscript which Beinert (1955) says was discovered in the National library in Madrid. Although Beinert (1955) says that the name of the author is not contained within the manuscript, he surmises from clues in the text that the writer was a Spanish clerk living in Palestine or a pilgrim from Spain. The manuscript itself is a copy. Beinert (1955) suggests that the earlier original document (i.e., the autograph) appears to have been written soon after the earthquake struck while Ambraseys (2009) reports that Braslavy-Braslavsky, J. (1955) and Shalem (1955) assume that News of '46' is no more than a somewhat careless translation of the German or French version of the Letter written by an Anonymous Venetian and reproduced in flysheets in Europe.