Bidspirit auction | VIDA do Honrado Infante Josaphate

VIDA do Honrado Infante Josaphate Filho del Rey Avenir. Lisboa. 1963. - VIDA do Honrado Infante Josaphate Filho del Rey Avenir . Versão de Frei Hilário da Lourinhã e a Identificação por Diogo do Couto de Josaphate com o Buda. Introdução e notas por Margarida Corrêa de Lacerda. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963. 210 pp.: il.; 255 mm. First modern edition of this medieval Portuguese text. The volume presents a facsimile of the manuscript by Friar Hilário da Lourinhã and its transcription on facing pages, accompanied by an extract from the Décadas da Ásia in which Diogo do Couto (Lisbon, c. 1542 - Goa, 1616) identifies the Josaphat of legend with the historical Buddha. The Life of the Honorable Prince Josaphat is the medieval Portuguese version of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat – a hagiographic narrative of Buddhist origin that, through successive reworkings in Georgian, Arabic, Greek, and Latin, spread throughout Christian Europe from the 11th century onwards, narrating the conversion of an Indian prince to Christian asceticism under the guidance of the hermit Barlaam. The identification of the Christian Josaphat with the Buddha – now accepted by research – was first established in Portugal by Diogo do Couto, chronicler of Portuguese India and chief keeper of the Goa Register, based on the direct contacts with the Asian world that his service in the State of India afforded him. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate