Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1628-1633 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
1 volume
Scope and content
Bound volume containing papers relating to the activities of the Portuguese East India Company, 1628-1633, collected and annotated by Ataíde, and including letters from company representatives at Goa, papers relating to the fitting out and repair of ... »
System of arrangement
1 volume.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1567; participated in the expedition of the Marquês de Santa Cruz to the island of Terceira, 1587; served under Don Martinho de Rivera, General of the Galleys of Spain; served as Captain of Horse; Frontier Commander of Alcobaça; General of the ... »
Repository
Archival history
Following Ataíde's death in 1647, his large collection of books and manuscripts were passed by inheritance to his cousins of the Castel-Melhor family. The collection was dispersed in 1878-1879 when the majority of items were sold at auction. The volume ... »
Custodial history
Presented to the Library of King's College London by Sir Henry Joseph Lynch, Kt, via Professor Charles Ralph Boxer, 1949.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- Portuguese
Finding aids
See publication note
Existence and location of copies
The College Archives, King's College London, also holds a microfilm copy of the text.
Related materials
Publication note
The manuscripts of Ataíde have been extensively described by Professor Charles Ralph Boxer in his article 'The naval and colonial papers of Dom António de Ataíde', republished in Boxer's From Lisbon to Goa, 1500-1750, Studies in Portuguese maritime ... »
Place access points
People and Organisations
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Archivist's note
Sources: Boxer, op. cit; British Library OPAC; Grande enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira. Compiled by Robert Baxter.