8 In 1992, the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses published the facsimile edition of the “Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu”. In its preface, Vasco Graça Moura points out the fact that a third part of the facsimiled codex, which contained “TheBook of DuarteBarbosa”was at that time of unknownwhereabouts. The 1813 publisher sold in 1821 the original three-part codex to Mr. Franscico Xavier Bertrand of the famous Lisbon-based namesake bookshop. In 1895, when Prince Afonso of Bragança, Duke of Oporto, was appointed Viceroy of Portuguese India (the very last), a present of the codex was forwarded to him. After the Prince returned to Portugal, the codex was deposited at Ajuda Royal Library. Following the 1910 revolution, the codex did somehow regain its lawful owner in 1911. In 1912, the codex was sold by the then exiled Duke of Oporto to Ludwig Rosenthal of Munich. Professor Maurice L.Ettinghausen, who at the time worked for the Àrm of Ludwig Rosenthal (the famous antiquarian bookseller), later
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