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ALBUQUERQUE (Luís Mendonça de). OS GUIAS Náuticos de Munique e Évora. Lisboa. 1965. - ALBUQUERQUE (Luís Mendonça de) OS GUIAS Náuticos de Munique e Évora . Introduction by Armando Cortesão. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1965. [8], 292 pp.: il.; 290 mm. Edition and study of two pamphlets printed in the first quarter of the 16th century, the oldest known Portuguese nautical guides: the Regimento do Astrolábio e do Quadrante (c. 1509), of which a single copy is preserved in the State Library in Munich, and the Regimento da Declinação do Sol (c. 1516), of which a single copy exists in the Public Library of Évora. The volume publishes the text of the Munich guide, followed by variants and new chapters from the Évora guide. The pamphlets include the oldest known Portuguese translation of Sacrobosco's Treatise on the Sphere , made from the Latin original, to which the study dedicates a chapter, in addition to a brief history of the rules of nautical astronomy. The designation ”nautical guides” is due to the author, who introduced it in a 1960 article. With an English introduction by Armando Cortesão. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate