_ 196 _ "Nunciada" (A) Manuel Teles de Vasconcelos "Francesa"(B) "Ferros"(C) "Sant' Antonio"(D) Navire de Catarina Dias(E) Manuel of 9.II.1512, concerning the payment for measuring "(...) of the carrack "Espirito Santo" which was built by Juliao in (?) of one hundred and thirty and a quarter ton (...)" (published by A. A. Banha de Andrade, Historia de um fidalgo quinhentista português, p. 210). (A) Alvaro Vaz to Dom Manuel, 1.c., p.257. Vide supra, note 8. (B) Inventory of 1505, f.20. (C) Inventory of 1505, f.24; bill of lading, Cannanore, 5.I.1505, TdT, CC. II-9-37, published below doc. 13 [not included here]. (D) Inventory of 1505, f.22. This was the ship that Lopo Soares sailed on according to Ementas da Casa da India published by A. Braamcamp Freire (Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (1907), p.5). (E) Mathias to Dom Manuel, from Kayankulam, 18.XII.1504, CA, II, p.268: Inventory of 1505, f.28. There is no doubt that we are dealing here with Catarina Dias de Aguiar, who took part in the overseas trade between 1477 and 1518, (Cartas de quitcâo del-Rei D. Manuel, ed. A. Braamcamp Freire in Archivo Historico Portuguez, vol. I (1903), p. 363-365), and we can recognize her as the person who was in business relations with Tristâo da Cunha (A. A. Banha de Andrade, Historia de um fidalgo quinhentista português, p.32, 43, 103). Sanuto thus defined her activities "(...) Catelin Dies che dã li letti a li cortesani (...)" (VI, p.26); but it is difficult to take this unclear phrase in its literal sense and we have had to give up trying to elucidate the meaning. A ship bearing this Caterina Dias' name was part of the squadron of
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