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PEIXOTO (António da Costa). OBRA NOVA de Língua Geral de Mina. Lisboa. 1945. - PEIXOTO (António da Costa) OBRA NOVA de Língua Geral de Mina . Manuscrito da Biblioteca Pública de Évora e da Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa. Publicado e apresentado por Luís Silveira e acompanhado de comentário filológico de Edmundo Correia Lopes. Lisboa: Agência Geral das Colónias, 1945. 66, [4] pp.: il.; 200 mm. António da Costa Peixoto was a native of Entre-Douro-e-Minho and lived in Brazil, in Minas Gerais. He was an official in the Portuguese colonial system in the Vila Rica region (present-day Ouro Preto), during the Gold Cycle; he was dismissed from his post in 1741, accused of associating with slaves in taverns. The manuscript of the *Obra nova de Lingoa geral de mina, tradutorida, à nosso Igdioma* (New Work of the General Language of Mina, translated into our language ) was written in 1741 in S. Bartolomeu, near Vila Rica, has 42 pages and belongs to the Public Library of Évora. It is a development of an earlier manuscript from 1731, * Alguns Apontamentos da Lingoa minna* (Some Notes on the Minas Language ), preserved in the National Library of Portugal. The new work is one of only two documents dedicated to the African languages spoken in Colonial Brazil – the only one about the languages of the Gbe group (Ewe-Fon), spoken by slaves from the Gold Coast, a region of the present-day Gulf of Benin. It is a bilingual Portuguese-Mina vocabulary with dialogues, constituting an irreplaceable linguistic and ethnographic testimony of the contact between colonial Portuguese and the African languages transplanted to Brazil during the period of slavery. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate