Relacion sumaria del del descubrimto.
| Subject | Explorers |
|---|---|
| Oceania--Discovery and exploration | |
| Australia--Discovery and exploration | |
| Australia--Description and travel | |
| Papua New Guinea--History | |
| Australia--Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) | |
| Islands of the Pacific | |
| Category | 1. Settlement |
| Author | Prado y Tobar, Diego de |
| Keywords | Vanuatu |
| Portugal | |
| Current Holder | State Library of New South Wales |
| Period Of Reference | 1578/1680 |
| Series Number | Safe 1/73 |
| Item Number | 9qoQzy01 |
| Access Rights | Digitised |
| Country Of Origin | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Portuguese | |
| Latin | |
| Description From Source | Full title: Relacion sumaria del del descubrimto. que enpeco pero fernandez de quiros portugues en la mar del Zur en las partes australes asta la isle de yrenei por el dicha la grande astrialia del spiritu sancto.
0.08 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript Full title: Relacion sumaria del del descubrimto. que enpeco pero fernandez de quiros portugues en la mar del Zur en las partes australes asta la isle de yrenei por el dicha la grande astrialia del spiritu sancto. y le acabo El capan don diego de prado que al presente es monge de nuestro padre sanct basilio magno de madrid con asistencia del capan luis baes de torres con la nao san pedrico el ano de 1607 asta la cuidad de manila a 22 de mayo de dicho ano a honnra y gloria del omnipotente dios amen
English translation of title: Summary relation of the discovery begun by Pero Fernandez de Quiros, a Portuguese, in the Southern Sea in the southern parts up to the island of Irenei called by him the Great Astrialia of the Holy Spirit, and completed for him by Captain Don Diego de Prado, now a monk of our father Saint Basil the Great of Madrid, with the help of Captain Luis Baes de Torres in the ship San Pedrico in the year 1607 up to the city of Manila on the 22 of May of the said year, to the honour and glory of the omnipotent God, Amen.
Prado's manuscript comprises 32 pages of closely written text. It is bound into a volume containing 63 documents relating to Portugal and the Indies. The date range of the documents is ca. 1578 to 1680. Some are original, others are contemporary or later copies. Most are in Spanish, with some in Portuguese and Latin.
The manuscript is accompanied by an English translation made by George F. Barwick in 1922 (Safe 1/73b) and a description of documents 35 to 63 which is titled: 'Abstracts of titles and contents of those manuscripts in this volume which do not relate to America' (Safe 1/73c). |
| Physical Format | Manuscripts |
| Related Resources | http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/prado.pdf |
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