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PIRES (Tomé). A SUMA Oriental de Tomé Pires e o livro de Francisco Rodrigues. Coimbra. 1978. - PIRES (Tomé) A SUMA Oriental de Tomé Pires e o livro de Francisco Rodrigues . Leitura e notas de Armando Cortesão. Coimbra: Por ordem da Universidade, 1978. 506 pp.: il.; 220 mm. Portuguese edition, with reading and notes by Armando Cortesão, of the Suma Oriental by Tomé Pires, followed by the Book by Francisco Rodrigues , published as a complement to the English critical edition that the same editor prepared for the Hakluyt Society in 1944. The Oriental Summa , written by Tomé Pires during his stay in Malacca between 1512 and 1515, constitutes the first major European description of the ports, trade routes, and goods of the East, from the Red Sea to China and Japan, written by someone who was later sent as ambassador to the Chinese court. The Book of Francisco Rodrigues , attributed to the pilot who accompanied the conquest of Malacca, brings together itineraries and nautical charts of Southeast Asia, among the oldest known European representations of the region, and whose analysis led Armando Cortesão to defend the thesis of Portuguese precedence in the recognition of Australia. Published in the Acta Universitatis Conimbrigensis, and illustrated with fold-out maps, it is an indispensable reference work for the study of the Portuguese presence in the Far East at the beginning of the 16th century. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate