Portrait of George Borrow

El Evangelio de San Lucas en Caló, 1998

CABALLERO, Alberto González, ed. El Evangelio de San Lucas en Caló. Córdoba: Ediciones El Almendro, 1998. Paperback, 1st thus. ISBN 84-8005-037-3. A revision of Borrow’s translation of the Gypsy Luke into Spanish Romani.

Cover of El Evangelio de San Lucas en Caló, 1998 This is the only modern printing of Borrow’s translation of the Gospel of Luke into Spanish Romani, which he had printed in Madrid, dated 1837 on the title page but not issued till spring 1838. Father Alberto González Caballero took the opportunity to present it as a bilingual edition, with parallel versions in Spanish Romani and Castilian Spanish. He also corrected certain errors in the original, for example where Castilian expressions had been used in the Romani text, and added a Caló-Castellano and Castellano-Caló vocabulary. He does not refer to Borrow’s own revised edition published by the British & Foreign Bible Society in 1872.