The 'taboas geraes' of joão teixeira albernaz i as a mediated textual object
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Abstract
This article examines the 'Taboas geraes da toda a navegacao' (1630), a manuscript atlas by Portuguese cartographer Joao Teixeira Albernaz I (fl.1602-1649), as a textual artifact permanently altered and resignified by the additions and alterations that Spanish mariner and author Francisco de Seyxas y Lovera (c.1646-c.1705) carried out in the late seventeenth century. I examine the biographical circumstances in which Seyxas possessed the atlas and analyze his modifications of the 'Taboas geraes' as authorial acts with political, autobiographical and literary dimensions. I seek, as well, to identify problems that the 'Taboas geraes' presents for how we understand matters of authorship and textual nature surrounding this object - as well as other one-of-a-kind, mediated artefacts - examining whether existing scholarship provides an adequate framework through which to approach this situation. C koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2018.
Publication Title
Quaerendo
Volume
48
Issue
2
First Page
106
Last Page
126
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1163/15700690-12341403
ISSN
00149527
E-ISSN
15700690
Citation Information
McCarl. (2018). The “Taboas geraes” of João Teixeira Albernaz I as a Mediated Textual Object. Quaerendo, 48(2), 106–126. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700690-12341403