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ZURARA (Gomes Eanes de). CHRONIQUE de Guinée. Ifan-Dakar. 1960. - ZURARA (Gomes Eanes de) CHRONIQUE de Guinée . Préface et Traduction de Léon Bourdon, avec la collaboration de Robert Ricard, notes de L. Bourbon, E. Serra Rafols, Th. Monod, R. Ricard, R. Mauny. Ifan-Dakar: Institut Français d' Afrique Noire, 1960. 302 pp.; 270 mm. A critical French translation of the Chronicle of Notable Deeds that Took Place in the Conquest of Guinea by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, established by Léon Bourdon with the collaboration of Robert Ricard, and annotated by a group of specialists, including Théodore Monod and Raymond Mauny. The chronicle, written by order of Prince Henry the Navigator, is the most important source for the history of the exploration of the West African coast between 1433 and 1448, from Cape Bojador to Cape Verde, based on the accounts of the navigators themselves. It includes particularly remarkable pages, such as the description of the division of captives brought to Lagos in 1444, one of the first testimonies of the beginning of the African slave trade by the Portuguese, as well as information about the Canary Islands and the settlement of Madeira and the Azores. Published as number 60 of the Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire , it constitutes an international reference edition for the study of the early stages of Portuguese expansion in Africa. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate