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SEPULVEDA (Christovam Ayres de Magalhães). TESTAMENTO de Affonso de Albuquerque. Lisboa. 1899. - SEPULVEDA (Christovam Ayres de Magalhães) TESTAMENTO de Affonso de Albuquerque . Lisboa: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1899. [4], 32 pp.; 305 mm. First edition, as a separate publication from the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (2nd class, volume VIII, part II). Memoir read at the general assembly of the Academy on January 12, 1899, in which news is given and a transcript of a large part of the will of Afonso de Albuquerque, written aboard the ship Flor da Rosa , is published, a document hitherto unknown. The text was identified in a codex from the archives of the Countess of Sabugal's family: some original documents, drawn up in Goa in 1561, relating to the Chapel of Our Lady of the Mountain, which Albuquerque had ordered to be built in 1513 above the gate through which he first entered the city, in fulfillment of a vow made upon returning from the failed attempt on Adém. The documents, with a sentence from the chief administrator of the deceased in India, Manuel de Vilhegas de Castelo Branco, dated December 21, 1561, concern Brás de Albuquerque, son of the governor, and include a ”transcription of some items from his father's will, ” in twenty-four pages of transcription. The paleographic reading was assisted by Aires de Sá, and the copy was reviewed by Pedro de Azevedo and Gabriel Pereira. A significant contribution to the biography of Afonso de Albuquerque, revealing his last wishes, the provisions regarding the chapel where he would be buried, and the charitable foundations he established in Goa. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate