El Escorial Monastery in Spain. Esmeraldo de situ orbis was composed between 1505 and 1508, but remained unpublished until the 19th century. Several editions have been published, in Portuguese, French, and English. They are based on two 18th-century manuscripts: one at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and another at the Public Library of Évora. The original manuscript has never been found. According to Joaquim Barradas de Carvalho, the title “Esmeraldo de situ orbis”, more than a travel book, was a work of erudition encompassing all the recorded knowledge of Portuguese navigations by the late 15th and early 16th centuries. References Sources Further reading Curated digital edition of the original Portuguese text of the Esmeraldo, edited by J. Acevedo, S. Munzi and the ERC RUTTER Project team at the University of Lisbon, 2022. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6498014. Portuguese books European colonization of the Americas Portuguese chronicles Books about Brazil