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245	0	0	_aJournal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499. _cedited by E.G. Ravenstein
246	3	1	_aRoteiro da primeira viagem de Vasco da Gama à Índia, 1497-1499
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle devised, in English, by Library staff.
500			_aOriginal resource extent: 45 folios ; 29 centimeters.
520			_aThis manuscript is the only known copy of a journal believed to have been written on board ship during Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India. The lost original of the journal most often has been attributed to Álvaro Velho, who accompanied Vasco da Gama to India in 1497-99, but who did not return to Portugal with the expedition but remained for eight years in Gambia and Guinea. The manuscript is anonymous and undated, but paleographic analysis dates it to the first half of the 16th century. The document describes the voyage to India and contact with different peoples on the coasts of Africa and India. It discusses diseases, plants and animals, hostages, titles and professions, weapons of war, food, precious stones, navigational challenges, and much else. Appended to the main body of the text are a description of some of the kingdoms of the Orient, a list of spices and other merchandise and their prices, and a vocabulary of the Calicut language. In a different handwriting, new titles were added, Descubrimento da India por Vasco da Gamma (Discovery of India by Vasco da Gama) on the cover page, and Relação do descubrimento da India por Vasco da Gamma (Report of the discovery of India by Vasco da Gama) on the front free endpaper. The manuscript was for centuries in the collections of the Monastery of Santa Cruz of Coimbra. In 1834 it was transferred to the Municipal Library of Porto. Vasco da Gama's voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to India was an event of enormous historical significance. Apart from being one of the great acts of European seamanship, it laid the basis for the Portuguese Empire, which was to last for centuries, and it established new contacts between Europe and the civilizations of Asia, marking an early milestone in the process that later came to be called "globalization." The journal of Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2013.
535	1		_3Original resource at: _aThe Municipal Library of Porto.
546			_aContent in Portuguese.
588	0		_aDescription based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
653		0	_a1497 to 1499
653		0	_aDescription and travel _aExplorers _aGama, Vasco da, 1469-1524 _aMemory of the World _aPortugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580 _aVoyages and travels
700			_aRavenstein, E.G. _914136
720			_aVelho, Álvaro _eAttributed Name.
752			_aIndia
752			_aPortugal
773	0		_tWorld History
856	4	0	_dgdcwdl _fwdl_10068 _uhttps://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.10068
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