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DIÁRIO da Viagem de Vasco da Gama. Porto. 1945. - DIÁRIO da Viagem de Vasco da Gama . Fac-Símile do Códice Original, transcrição e versão em grafia actualizada. Com uma introdução por Damião Peres, leitura paleográfica por António Baião e A. de Magalhães Basto, texto actualizado por A. de Magalhães Basto. Porto: Livraria Civilização Editora, 1945. 2 v.: il.; 225 mm. - (Biblioteca Histórica de Portugal e Brasil, Série Ultramarina, n.º IV) Facsimile edition of the only known manuscript of the account of Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India (1497-1499), accompanied by paleographic reading and an updated spelling version, included in volume IV of the Overseas Series of the Historical Library of Portugal and Brazil, with an introduction by Damião Peres. The codex, preserved in the Porto Municipal Public Library, constitutes the most important contemporary testimony of the opening of the sea route to India, narrated in the first person by an anonymous crew member of the fleet, whose authorship has been attributed, without definitive consensus, to Álvaro Velho or João de Sá. First published in 1838 by Diogo Köpke, this unique document was classified by UNESCO in 2013 as Memory of the World. An indispensable reference edition for the study of the Portuguese Discoveries, bringing together in facsimile, paleographic transcription and updated text the three complementary readings of the original document. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate