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The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. Established in 1378, it is one of the oldest archival institutions in the world.
Torre do Tombo National Archive The Apocalypse of Lorvão is an illuminated manuscript from Lorvão , Portugal containing the Commentary on the Apocalypse of Beatus of Liébana Monastery , Spain.
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The Vasco da Gama Tower (Portuguese: Torre Vasco da Gama, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]) is a 160-metre (520 ft) lattice tower with skyscraper in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, the municipality of Lisbon, in Portugal.
The Livro do Armeiro-Mor contains 161 folios of parchment, with dimensions of 403 x 315 mm, and is written in Portuguese. At the end of the monarchy, it belonged to the private library of King King Carlos. Today it is preserved in the national archive of the Torre do Tombo Archive (Royal House reference, Chancellery of Nobility, book 19).
The author was Duarte D'Armas, [3] a squire of the Royal Household and a bachelor of canon law and apostolic notary, who held the office of Registrar of the Royal Library and Torre do Tombo. He personally visited each castle and fortress for the purpose.
The 1571 atlas was reproduced in colour, with a reconstructed frontispiece, and, inexplicably, with the Eastern Mediterranean plate from the 1576 atlas included without any explanation, in "Atlas de Fernao Vaz Dourado : reprodcao fidelissima do exemplar do Torre do Tombo, datado de Goa, 1571", Porto: Livraria Civilizacao, 1948.
The two volumes Arms Duarte's work would come to be known as the Book of Fortresses, since the author did not name his work. The codex containing the two volumes is now deposited in the National Archives of Torre do Tombo in Lisbon. The two volumes, with 139 folios in total, are now called: