The Book of Prophecies V3

by Christopher Columbus (Editor), Roberto Rusconi (Editor), Blair Sullivan (Translator)

Overview

Christopher Columbus returned to Europe in the final days of 1500, ending his third voyage to the Indies not in triumph but in chains. Seeking to justify his actions and protect his rights, he began to compile biblical texts and excerpts from patristic writings and medieval theology in a manuscript known as the Book of Prophecies. This unprecedented collection was designed to support his vision of the discovery of the Indies as an important event in the process of human salvation - a first step toward the liberation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim domination. This work is part of a twelve-volume series produced by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies which involved the collaboration of some forty scholars over the course of fourteen years. In this volume of the series, Roberto Rusconi has written a complete historical introduction to the Book of Prophecies, describing the manuscript's history and analyzing its principal themes. His edition of the documents, the only modern one, includes a complete critical apparatus and detailed commentary, while the facing-page English translations allow Columbus's work to be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592446483
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	04/09/2004
Series:	Repertorium Columbianum , #3
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	434
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Roberto Rusconi is Professor of the History of Christianity in the Department of History at the University of Aquila. Blair Sullivan is a medieval scholar at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The best edition and translation now available.... One of the real virtues of the work is Rusconi's immensely careful tracing out of the intellectual world of Columbus."

Edward M. Peters, author of 'Inquisition'


"The translation of the manuscript by Professor Blair Sullivan is superb with complete textual apparatus, much better than that found in the 1892 'Raccolta' edition. The English edition here is very readable with copious commentary notes guiding the user to further information on a number of points...."

Delno West, Northern Arizona University

Editorial Reviews

"The best edition and translation now available.... One of the real virtues of the work is Rusconi's immensely careful tracing out of the intellectual world of Columbus."

Edward M. Peters, author of 'Inquisition'


"The translation of the manuscript by Professor Blair Sullivan is superb with complete textual apparatus, much better than that found in the 1892 'Raccolta' edition. The English edition here is very readable with copious commentary notes guiding the user to further information on a number of points...."

Delno West, Northern Arizona University

From the Publisher