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Vicente Barbosa

1663–1721

A Portuguese religious writer from the late seventeenth century, he is remembered for a rare account of missionary work in Borneo and the wider Portuguese world overseas. His surviving work offers a small but vivid window into travel, faith, and empire.

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Compendio da relaçam, que veyo da India o anno de 1691

Compendio da relaçam, que veyo da India o anno de 1691

by Vicente Barbosa

About the author

Born in 1663 in Redondo, Portugal, Vicente Barbosa was a Portuguese religious writer associated in several library and reference records with the Clerics Regular, and he later died in Lisbon. Sources found during this search agree that he wrote in the late 1600s, though they do not all agree on his year of death: some give 1711, while others list 1721.

Barbosa is known above all for Compendio da relaçam, que veyo da India o anno de 1691, published in Lisbon in 1692. The book draws on reports connected to a mission in Borneo and reflects the religious and imperial networks of Portugal in Asia at the time.

Very little biographical detail appears to survive beyond those basic facts, but his work remains of interest as an early Portuguese account tied to overseas missions. For modern readers, Barbosa is less a fully documented public figure than a voice preserved through one unusual historical text.