9 that year sold the second part of the dismembered codex to Mr. J. P. Morgan in Paris. Later, Professor Ettinghausen sold the Àrst part of the codex (19 leaves) to the Conde de Arrochela. Much later, the Pierpoint Morgan Library acquired those leaves in 1963. The third part, i.e. “The Book of Duarte Barbosa” remained in oblivion for the next 53 years. In 2013, two hundred years after the Academia had published the original manuscript from this codex, “The Book of Duarte Barbosa” reemerged among other papers kept by the Àrm which employed Professor Ettinghausen between the two World Wars. It is this manuscript, rich of a momentous course of historic events, which we now present for publication in facsimile to the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa. After the Hakluyt editions of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1856) and of Mansel Longworth Dames (1918), we deemed desirable to publish in English the part of the manuscript which deals with the Arabian
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