Add MS 20883 - Selected royal letters concerning Portuguese India and Brazil trade
- Date
- 1697 to 1704
- Archive
- British Library
- Collection
- Add Manuscripts
- Identifier
- Add MS 20883 (supplied selected coverage)
- Type
- Archival copy/compilation volume; selected coverage
- Date added
- 21 October 2026 8.52 pm
- Date modified
- 31 October 2026 12.13 am
Document notes
Catalogue volume XXIII, one item; visible spine 20,883 and TOM 23. Selected fourteen pages; internal gaps retained. Original PDF order, blank surfaces, fold/edge conditions and any modern reference/citation context retained. No complete archival coverage or full transcription claimed. All supplied PDF pages are retained in their original order, including covers and blank surfaces. Full-resolution scan copies preserve the source pixels without resizing or cropping. The original PDF remains unchanged. The source title page states that this authenticated collection was ordered by a royal provision of 28 December 1754. This dates the commission, not necessarily the copying of these sheets. The catalogue span 1697–1704 concerns the original letters, distinct from this later compilation. Date indexing convention update, 24 October 2026: The searchable Date field follows the selected original letters' catalogue chronology, 1697–1704. The title-page royal provision of 28 December 1754 commissions this authenticated later collection; it does not establish an exact copy-production date, which may be later. The commission and uncertain copying chronology remain separately recorded above. This supersedes the former c. 1754 commission-based indexing estimate; it does not establish a 1754 copying date or an exhaustive creation span for the whole collection. Previous Date value (preserved verbatim): Undated [compilation commissioned 1754-12-28; selected letters catalogued 1697..1704]
Document excerpt
Ollecção authentica de todas as Leys, Regimentos, Alvaras, e mais ordens, que se expediram para a India desde o estabelecimento destas Conquistas; or- denada por Provizam de 28 de Março de 1754. India Tomo. 23. [BRITISH MUSEUM]
