SOUSA (Fr. João de). DOCUMENTOS Arábicos para a História Portugueza copiados dos Originaes da Torre do Tombo. ...

SOUSA (Fr. João de). DOCUMENTOS Arábicos para a História Portugueza copiados dos Originaes da Torre do Tombo. Lisboa. 1790

SOUSA (Fr. João de)

DOCUMENTOS Arábicos para a História Portugueza copiados dos Originaes da Torre do Tombo. Com permissão de S. Magestade e Vertidos em Portuguez por Ordem da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa por Fr. João de Sousa. Lisboa: Na Officina da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1790.

4.º; i4, A-Z4, Aa4; [8], 190, [2] pp.; 220 mm. Modest contemporary binding with leather spine and corners; slightly trimmed; title page with acidity and traces of notes and signatures of ownership; acidity; last folio with the Catalog of works printed by the Academy with marginal restoration.

IMPORTANT AND RARE COMPILATION of 58 documents in Arabic on the history of the Portuguese discoveries, namely in their relationship with the Arab peoples. The work, organized in chronological order, lists a set of epistolography sent from the Muslim kingdoms to the kings of Portugal D. Manuel and D. João III, as well as to several viceroys and important personalities, among them letters to Vasco da Gama, Nuno Fernandes de Ataíde, Francisco Alvares, Count of Linhares, Afonso de Albuquerque, etc. The edition is bilingual, with the original text in one column and its translation into Portuguese in the other, with notes added at the end of each document.

Born in the city of Damascus, Fr. João de Sousa came to Lisbon in 1750. He was assigned two diplomatic missions to North African states, the first in 1773 and 1774 to Morocco and the second in commission to Algiers from 1786 to 1790. He was also a professor of Arabic language in Lisbon in 1794.

 

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