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Afonso V, King of Portugal, 1432-1481
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Five treatises of the philosophers stone. Two of Alphonso King of Portugall, as it was written with his own hand, and taken out of his closset: translated out of the Portugez into English : One of John Sawtre a Monke, translated into English. Another written by Florianus Raudorff, a German philosopher, and translated out of the same language, into English. Also a treatise of the names of the philosophers stone, by William Gratacolle, translated into English. To which is added the Smaragdine Table. / By the paines and care of H.P.
Date: 1652 [i.e. 1651]
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Chronica do descobrimento e conquisita de Guiné / escrita por mandado de elrei D. Affonso V, sob a direcção scrientifica, e segundo as instrucções do illustre Infante D. Henrique, pelo chronista Gomes Eannes de Azurara; fielmente trasladada do manuscrito original contemporaneo, que se conserva na Bibliotheca Real de Pariz, e dada pela primeira vez á luz per diligencia do Visconde da Carreira; precedida de uma introducção, e illustrada com algumas notas, pelo visconde de Santarem. E seguida d'um glossario das palavras e phrases antiquadas e obsoletas.
Zurara, Gomes Eanes de, approximately 1410-1473 or 1474.Date: 1841