Lyvro de Plataforma das Fortalezas da India
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The Lyvro de Plataforma das Fortalezas da India (Book of the Platform of the Fortresses of India), or the Livro da Plataforma das Fortalezas da Índia in modern Portuguese orthography, is a seventeenth-century carthographic book made by Malay-Portuguese author Manuel Godinho de Erédia.
The book is a illustrated account of the Portuguese Territories in East Africa, Middle East, India and East and Southeast Asia in 1620. Along with 25 portraits of the Viceroys and Governors of Portuguese India, the book contains 77 watercolor illustrations of maps and plans of the fortresses of the colonial Portuguese possessions and related places in the East.[1][2]