{"id":2053,"date":"2014-12-10T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2016-01-15T08:19:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T08:19:19","slug":"columbus-book-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/columbus-book-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Book of Privileges: Laying Claim with the Blessing of the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <strong><a title=\"Library of Congress website\" href=\"http:\/\/loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress<\/a><\/strong> collections in Washington, D.C., is a compilation of royal charters, papal bulls, writs, grants and other legal documents that <strong>Christopher Columbus<\/strong> brought together into a <strong>cartulary<\/strong> in 1502. It is these documents that put forth the agreements between Columbus and <strong>King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella<\/strong> as to ownership and ruling of the lands that Columbus was discovering in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Library of Congress\u2019s authorized <a title=\"Christopher Columbus Book of Privileges: The Claiming of a New World\" href=\"http:\/\/www.levenger.com\/Reading-17\/Books-238\/Christopher-Columbus-Book-of-Privileges-13259.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">facsimile of the <strong>Book of Privileges<\/strong>, published by <strong>Levenger Press<\/strong><\/a>, includes the <strong>Dudum siquidem Papal Bull of 26 September 1493 by Pope Alexander VI<\/strong> that is believed to contain the first written reference to a New World.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Giovanni-CHRISTOPHER-COLUMBUS-BOOK-OF-PRIVILEGES_s5-e1419779230963.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2055 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Giovanni-CHRISTOPHER-COLUMBUS-BOOK-OF-PRIVILEGES_s5-e1419779230963.jpg\" alt=\"Columbus Book of Privileges\" width=\"719\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Giovanni-CHRISTOPHER-COLUMBUS-BOOK-OF-PRIVILEGES_s5-e1419779230963.jpg 719w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Giovanni-CHRISTOPHER-COLUMBUS-BOOK-OF-PRIVILEGES_s5-e1419779230963-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facsimile edition of the Book of Privileges, by Levenger Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The three authors of the facsimile book provide context and history for the Book of Privileges. <strong>Chet Van Duzer<\/strong> explores the geographic knowledge of the day, and why Columbus thought the Americas were China. <strong>John W. Hessler<\/strong> discusses the structures of <strong>medieval law<\/strong> that informed Columbus\u2019s cartulary. <strong>Daniel De Simone<\/strong> recounts the Library of Congress\u2019s acquisition of the Book of Privileges (the copy known as the <strong>Washington codex<\/strong>), one of only four principal copies known, and the bibliographic materials that the Library offers as a result of this acquisition.<\/p>\n<h2>The authors\u2019 bios at the date of publication<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Van Duzer<\/strong> is an Invited Research Scholar at the <strong>John Carter Brown Library<\/strong> in Providence, Rhode Island, and works on special projects in the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hessler<\/strong> is Curator of the Jay I. Kislak Collection for the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress and Lecturer in the History of Archaeology and Exploration at <strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>De Simone<\/strong> was Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress and is now Eric Weinmann Librarian at the <strong>Folger Shakespeare Library<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jpeg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2077 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jpeg1.jpg\" alt=\"Facsimile of the Book of Privileges by Levenger Press\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jpeg1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.facsimilefinder.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/jpeg1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>Nicol\u00e1s Wey G\u00f3mez<\/strong>, Professor of History, California Institute of Technology, had this to say about the facsimile edition:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>Book of Privileges<\/strong> is a perfect blueprint of <strong>Columbus&#8217;s understanding of his legal rights<\/strong> to the Indies at a time when he saw his good fortune wane with the crowns of Aragon and\u00a0Castile. The papal bulls, royal concessions, and various other documents he compiled to reassert his status as admiral, viceroy, and governor of the Indies also crucially attest to the protocols by which a tiny Christian kingdom reinvented itself as a globalizing empire. This <strong>facsimile edition of the Washington codex<\/strong> \u2013 the only surviving copy to have included the earliest known document seeming to acknowledge Columbus&#8217;s discoveries as something distinct from legendary India \u2013 constitutes an important scholarly complement to Nader and Formisano&#8217;s edition and translation of the Genoa codex. In the essays that accompany this handsome facsimile, Van Duzer, Hessler, and De Simone carefully elucidate the changing geographical ideas and legal traditions that inform the Book of Privileges, and they guide us to <strong>the treasury of early Americana<\/strong> housed today at the Library of Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the least-known collections of legal documents had some of the greatest impact on the history of the Americas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[170,162,161,16,160,171],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Columbus Book of Privileges: facsimile by Levenger Press.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the least-known legal documents had some of the greatest impact on the history of the Americas. 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