_ 202 _ Whatever Diogo de Couto wrote about Matias de Albuquerque as Viceroy, however, has been lost. Although the gap has been filled by other writers(A), these later texts are inadequate when compared with Couto’s earlier chapters relating to Marias de Albuquerque, as Commander of the South Sea and Captain of Ormuz. Fr Feliz drew attention to the existence of a Vida de Mathias de Albuquerque in the Bibliotica publica of Evora, cod. CXV-1-13(B). This is a manuscript of 231 folios, written around 1600 and then copied with some errors. In the absence of the original, the Evora copy serves as a basic text. The identity of the contemporary author, a humanist, remains unknown. It is an apologia intended to defend Albuquerque from imputations made against him. Other sources dealing with this illustrious figure must be examined, including the following: the correspondence of Matias de Albuquerque with the authorities in Portugal and the warrants he granted in India (edited by Cunha Rivara in Archivo Portuguese Oriental, III, 1-2 and v.3); Correspoindencia dos Inquisidores de Goa (edited by Baião, vol II)(C); parts. (A) Diogo de Couto, Decada undecimal, Lisbon, 1788 – Lisbon, 1975. Prologue. (B) Fr. Paulo da Trindade, Conquists espritual do Oriente, Lisbon, n.d. with Introduction and notes by Fr. Felix Lopes, III, 95 note. 1. (C) Correspondencia dos Inquisidores da India (1569-1630), II Coimbra, 1930.
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