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LISBOA (Cristovão de). HISTORIA dos Animaes e Arvores do Maranhão. Lisboa. 2000. - LISBOA (Cristovão de) HISTORIA dos Animaes e Arvores do Maranhão . Lisboa: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 2000. 488 pp.: il.; 310 mm. Facsimile edition of the manuscript codex preserved in the Overseas Historical Archive, with study and notes by Jaime Walter, re-editing the first printing of the work from 1967. It was published as part of the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the Discoveries, by the National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries and the Institute of Tropical Scientific Research. The codex, presumably written between 1624 and 1627, contains descriptions and images of animals and plants from Maranhão and is considered the first collection of images of the region's fauna and flora. It remained unpublished until 1967. The work is traditionally attributed to Friar Cristóvão de Lisboa, the first custodian of Maranhão, an attribution contested by Papavero and Teixeira in studies published in 1999 and 2000. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate