ABSTRACT
The current work presents the results of a review of most of the European diaries and travel chronicles containing reports of New World non-human primates dating from the discovery of America in 1492 until the end of the sixteenth century. We report the integral texts translated into English of these literary sources, giving a critical interpretation from a historical and scientific point of view. We note the ways these primates were perceived and described, with attention to the most important characteristics that were highlighted by the first explorers. Ethnotaxonomy and vernacular names used to designate non-human primates are also provided. This new body of knowledge, based largely on empirical reports full of details and first-hand observations, emerged as the first nucleus in the natural history of Neotropical Primates.
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Expeditions/history , Natural History/history , Platyrrhini , Publications/history , Animals , History, 15th Century , History, 16th CenturyABSTRACT
O Regimento proueytoso contra ha pestenença e o Modus curandi cum balsamo são apresentados em edição fac-similar dos exemplares existentes, respectivamente, na Biblioteca Pública de Évora e na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Ambos os fac-símiles receberam edições semidiplomáticas. Segue-se a essa transliteração para caracteres modernos uma tradução; no caso do Regimento, uma tradução intra-línguas, que modernizou o texto; no caso do Modus curandi, o texto latino recebeu tradução para o português atual. No presente texto explicam-se os critérios empregados na edição semidiplomática e, no caso do Regimento, na modernização do texto.
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History of Medicine , Reference Books, Medical , PortugalABSTRACT
This issue features facsimiles of Regimento proueytoso contra ha pestenença and Modus curandi cum balsamo, based on the original texts housed in the Biblioteca Pública de Evora and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, respectively. Semi-diplomatic editions of both facsimiles--with transliterations into modern characters--have also been provided. These are followed by translations, in the case of Regimento from old to modern Portuguese and in the case of Modus curandi from Latin to modern-day Portuguese. This text explains the criteria used in preparing the semi-diplomatic versions and in modernizing the text of Regimento.
