[65] For some years the Hieronymite Bible was in Paris,
having been brought thither by Marshal Junot, where it remained
unnoticed for several years. Being called for by the Portuguese
Government, Louis XVIII. paid 50,000 francs to the family of Junot, and
restored it to the monastery of Belem. A splendidly illuminated atlas by
an illuminator and cartographer named Fernando Vas Dourado was published
in the year of his death, 1571.
[65] See my Life of Clovio.
As an important example of what we may fairly call native art, we will
now briefly refer to the celebrated Missal of Estevam Gon?alvez Neto,
one of the productions of the busy second half of the sixteenth century.
The clever amateur who achieved this beautiful series of paintings, for
paintings they are, in addition to the writing and other ornamentation
of the MS., was descended from a noble family of S?rem, in the parish of
Macinhata, forty-three leagues from Lisbon. He became Canon of Viseu,
and during his leisure, after this appointment, executed the Pontifical
Missal which bears his name. It is dedicated to Don Jos? Manuel, of the
House of Tancos, Bishop of Viseu, afterwards of Coimbra, and lastly
Archbishop of Lisbon. This prelate gave the book to the Church of Viseu.
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