Bibliography of Portuguese Sources available

By Chryshane Mendis

This is a list of all the Portuguese sources available in English as far as I have investigated. It will continue to be updated.
This is intended to assist the Student of colonial history with an insight into the contemporary documents of the Portuguese which have been translated into English.

The working copy of the Conquista of Fr. S. G. Perera's at his library at Thulana Research Center. This Portuguese version was printed by the Government from the original manuscript. He published this in 1930 as "The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon".

	Name of work	Author	Year of completion	Translated by	Translation year	Current type	Scope of work
1	The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon	Fernao De Queyroz	1686	Fr. S G Perera	1930	3 Volume book	Entire history of Portuguese occupation
2	Decades	Joao De Barros & Diogo Do Couto		D W Ferguson	1908	Journal article: JRASCB Vol.XX, No. 60. "The History of Ceylon from earliest times to 1600"	History of Portuguese occupation till 1600
3	Livro  das Plantas (Book of the plans of all the Fortresses Cities and towns of State of Oriental India) - description on Ceylon	Antonio Bocarro	1633-1634	T Abeysinghe	1995	Journal article: JRASCB Vol. XXXIX, Special number. "Antonio Bocarro's Ceylon"	Lands, Forts, Revenue and Expenditure in the early 1630s
4	Lendas da India (Legends of India) - chapters relating to Ceylon	Gaspar Correar	During his tenure in Office - contemporary to events. Completed in 1561?	D W Ferguson	1888-1889	Originally in Ceylon Literary Register. Later by the RAS in Monograph series No. 1 "Gaspar Correa's Lendas Da India" with intro by Gaston Perera, 2010	The arrival of the Portuguese and building of the first fort/ Mayadunne's alliance with the Zamorin of Calicut/ Kotte embassy to Lisbon in 1543/ Plan to install two princes in Jaffna and Kandy in 1546 / Kandy tries to get military aid from Portuguese.
5	Historical Tragedy of the Island of Ceylon	Joao Ribeiro	1685 (began to write in 1680)	P E Peiris	1908	Book	General history and Memoir. Eye witness from 1640.
6	The Rebellion of Ceylon, and the progress of its conquest under the Governorship of Constantino de Sa Y Norona	Joao Saa y Menezes	1681 (began to write in his last years-1680?)	H. H. St. George		Journal article: JRASCB Vol. XI, No. 41	Briefly states history of Ceylon and description of the Kandyan Kingdim during King Senerath's regin. Early life of Constantine de Saa AND his Government and Uva campaign.
7	Conquista Spiritual do Oriente (Chapters on Ceylon)	Paulo da Trinidade	1636-7 (in 1630 he was engaged in gathering materials)	Rev. Edmund Peiris and Fr. Achilles Meersman	1972	Book: "Chapters on the Introduction of Christianity to Ceylon"	History of the Franciscans in India as well as a fair amount of contemporary history and descriptions of places
8	An Account of the Siege laid to Colombo by the King of Kandy	Affonso Dias da Lomba	1630s?	S G Perera	1930	Book	Account of the expedition to Uva and the siege of Colombo in 1630.