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A Synoptic Edition of the Log of Columbus's First Voyage (RC 6)

edited by F. Lardicci and V. Bertolucci Pizzorusso

The single most crucial document for Columbian scholarship is Christopher Columbus's log, or day-by-day account, of his first voyage to the New World. The original document has not survived, but three texts transmit versions of the log: a unique manuscript summary of Columbus's account, written in the hand of Bartolomé de Las Casas; chapters 15-41 of the Historie attributed to Fernando Colón and translated into Italian by Alfonso de Ulloa; and the reports of Columbus's first voyage contained in book 1, chapters 35-75 of Las Casas's Historia de las Indias. Now, for the first time, Columbian scholars have access to the three texts in a single volume presented in a form which allows detailed comparisons among them. Using Las Casas's summary of the original log as the text of reference, Dr Lardicci has carefully identified in the other two texts, using a simple system of numbering, corresponding passages, expansions of the reference text, and completely new material. In addition, this entirely unprecedented synoptic edition contains new scholarly editions of the three texts accompanied by new English translations. Dr Lardicci introduces her work with a detailed and fascinating study of the histories of the three texts, their individual characteristics, and the relationships among them. Useful commentary on unusual terminology and a new edition and transation of the notations, or postils, found in the margins of Las Casas's summary account, complete this fascinating volume. 684p (Brepols 1999)

The REPERTORIUM COLUMBIANUM is a collection of contemporary sources relating to Columbus’s four voyages, and the interpenetration of hitherto separate worlds that resulted from them. This multi-volume series provides in readily accessible form the basic documents that are the starting-point for research into this pivotal moment in world history; they form the indispensable tools for all scholarly enquiry into the encounter. The series provides accurate editions of the essential texts in their original languages for the use of specialists, while at the same time making them available to students and scholars in related fields through parallel translations into modern English. The Repertorium’s scope is generally limited to sources from the period between Columbus’s first voyage and the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1519-1521. The series concludes with publication of Volume 13 in December 2003.

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