Book of Prophecies

The Book of Prophecies is a book written by Christopher Columbus between 1502 and 1504. Columbus began the text while he was waiting to make his fourth trip to America and finished it after the end. For its realization it counted on the collaboration of Fray Gaspar de Gorricio, Carthusian monk of the Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas de Sevilla. The original manuscript is preserved in the Capitular and Columbine Library of the Cathedral of Seville. Description

It consists of 84 sheets of which only 70 are counted. It is written in Spanish and includes 385 Biblical and Fathers' Church citations, of which 326 are from the Old Testament and only 59 belong to the New Testament. Throughout the work and supported by the biblical quotations that constitute most of the text, Columbus maintains the thesis that he was predestined by God to make the discovery of the Indies, which was announced in the Bible, and states that The ultimate purpose of his travels is to evangelize Native Americans and get gold to finance the recovery of Jerusalem through Christianity. Columbus is based on the belief, widespread in his time and during the Middle Ages, that the whole history of mankind until the end of time was somehow foretold in the Holy Scriptures. Current interpretation

Cristoba Colón's biblical interpretation throughout the Book of Prophecies is exceptional, since he is a layman without theological training who devised and carried out throughout his life a company of great consequences and felt inspired by God for a biblical interpretation of the discoveries that he believed to be predestinated from his birth.

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