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printer's ornament of a framed devil's face

wheel with symbols related to predictions about future Popes

wheel with emblems for Pope Martino V - Clemente VIII

Christ holding a child

Multiplication table illustrated on the roots of an Indian Banyan tree, with accompanying tables and descriptions

This photograph depicts the ruins of an Augustinian church situated in Chaul. Chaul was an important Portuguese center for trade as early as 1521, but was abandoned in the mid 18th century. The Augustinian church was under construction during…

Van Heemskerck's pen and brown ink drawing offers one of many reconstructive illustrations of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Van Heemsckerk's image dates to approximately 1570, just a decade prior to Balbi's December 1579 arrival

This oil on linen painting depicts the port of Cannanore (Kannur) shortly after the Dutch gained control of the region from the Portuguese in 1663. Balbi visited Cannanore in October 1582.