Lyvro de Plataforma das Fortalezas da India

Portrait of Dom Jerónimo de Azevedo, Governor of Portuguese India, from Lyvro de Plataforma das Fortalezas da India.

The Lyvro de Plataforma das Fortalezas da India (Book of the Platform of the Fortresses of India), or the Livro da Plataforma das Fortalezas da Índia in modern Portuguese orthography, is a seventeenth-century carthographic book made by Malay-Portuguese author Manuel Godinho de Erédia.

The book is a illustrated account of the Portuguese Territories in East Africa, Middle East, India and East and Southeast Asia in 1620. Along with 25 portraits of the Viceroys and Governors of Portuguese India, the book contains 77 watercolor illustrations of maps and plans of the fortresses of the colonial Portuguese possessions and related places in the East.[1][2]

List of Plans

East Africa

Middle East

India

Sri Lanka

Maldives

Southeast Asia

East Asia

References

  1. ^ Brockey, Liam Matthew (2008). "Nodes of Empire". In Brockey, Liam Matthew (ed.). Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-7546-6313-3.
  2. ^ "O livro de plantaforma das fortalezas da Índia: da Biblioteca da Fortaleza de São Julião da Barra". Livraria Trindade. Lisbon: Edições Inapa. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
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