BIB_ID
224683
Accession number
MA 5129
Creator
Bocarro, António, 1594-1642.
Display Date
1635 Feb 17.
Description
1 item (254 f.) ; 41.6 cm
Notes
With forty-eight watercolor maps attributed to Pedro Barreto de Resende, secretary to Dom Miguel de Noronha, Count of Linhares.
The List of fortresses at the beginning of the atlas provides 52 locations and appears to correspond with the watercolor maps; however there are only 48 drawings. There are no drawings to correspond with numbers 8 (Borea), 15 (Dio), 33 (Mangalor) or 34 (Cananor), though there are descriptive texts for the fortresses of Borea, Dio and Cananor.
A description on the first page indicates that the manuscript is dedicated to Phillippe IV with "Duque do Cadaval" written above the dedication; the place and date of writing are found at the end of the introduction, just below the dedication with Bocarro's signature at the bottom of the page.
The List of fortresses at the beginning of the atlas provides 52 locations and appears to correspond with the watercolor maps; however there are only 48 drawings. There are no drawings to correspond with numbers 8 (Borea), 15 (Dio), 33 (Mangalor) or 34 (Cananor), though there are descriptive texts for the fortresses of Borea, Dio and Cananor.
A description on the first page indicates that the manuscript is dedicated to Phillippe IV with "Duque do Cadaval" written above the dedication; the place and date of writing are found at the end of the introduction, just below the dedication with Bocarro's signature at the bottom of the page.
Provenance
Bookplate of Paul Mellon's Oak Spring Library.
Summary
A seventeenth-century manuscript of an atlas with text and forty-eight watercolor maps of the fortresses, towns and cities of East India.
Housed in
Green cloth drop-front box (45.2 cm.)
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