exploring cross-cultural encounters in the early modern world
IMAGE 12: “An anonymous Portuguese watercolour illustration of an Hindu Brahmin goldsmith from Goa, from the 16th century Códice Casanatense. The inscription reads: ‘Brahmins of Goa, goldsmiths, gentiles'”. Album di disegni, illustranti usi e costumi dei popoli d’Asia e d’Africa con brevi dichiarazioni in lingua portoghese, ca. 1540. Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome. Downloaded from Wikimedia Commons.