The Peoples of the Orient in the Mid-16th Century. The Casanatense Codex presented by Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Chandeigne| N° d'inventaire | 25865 |
| Format | 16 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 310 p., illustrated, bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782367322315 |
This book aims to publish a major source for knowledge of the Orient in the 16th century. The 1889 codex from the Casanatense Library in Rome is a unique document, of which the general public has so far only known a few images, sometimes reproduced in certain historical works. Editions Franco Maria Ricci did so in 1992, in a beautiful book with limited distribution. Ours aims to reveal it to a wider readership, and we are including it in the Magellane collection alongside the major texts on European maritime expansion.
This codex, dating from the mid-16th century, composed of 154 paintings, is exceptional for the quality of its paintings, their abundance and their originality: commissioned by the Portuguese of Goa, painted by an anonymous person (probably an Indian or a mixed race), in a style that does not allow it to be linked to this or that "school" of artist-craftsmen of these regions, it is the only document from this period to offer a representation of oriental peoples - men and women - and sometimes of their religious customs, from the peoples of the Cape of Good Hope to the Chinese, that is to say corresponding to all the places where the Portuguese, since the beginning of the 16th century, had established contacts or created trading posts.
This book aims to publish a major source for knowledge of the Orient in the 16th century. The 1889 codex from the Casanatense Library in Rome is a unique document, of which the general public has so far only known a few images, sometimes reproduced in certain historical works. Editions Franco Maria Ricci did so in 1992, in a beautiful book with limited distribution. Ours aims to reveal it to a wider readership, and we are including it in the Magellane collection alongside the major texts on European maritime expansion.
This codex, dating from the mid-16th century, composed of 154 paintings, is exceptional for the quality of its paintings, their abundance and their originality: commissioned by the Portuguese of Goa, painted by an anonymous person (probably an Indian or a mixed race), in a style that does not allow it to be linked to this or that "school" of artist-craftsmen of these regions, it is the only document from this period to offer a representation of oriental peoples - men and women - and sometimes of their religious customs, from the peoples of the Cape of Good Hope to the Chinese, that is to say corresponding to all the places where the Portuguese, since the beginning of the 16th century, had established contacts or created trading posts.