Vernacular techniques and learned sources

Conceição, Margarida Tavares da; Batista Pacheco, Mafalda

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Conceição, Margarida Tavares da

Batista Pacheco, Mafalda

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Reading and writing architectural books is a broad issue in the early modern European world, usually connected with scholarly or at least cultivated courtly milieu. When searching the knowledge transmission methods regarding vernacular construction techniques these books seem almost useless. Yet, it is possible to identify some links between buildings, technical writings, and individuals, somehow allowing us to connect two supposedly separated worlds in architectural and construction culture: the vernacular and the learned. Supported by an ongoing research project, we intend to highlight these links using two sources in particular: the architectural treatise read in 1631 by Mateus do Couto the Elder (ca.1581 – ca.1664), and the measurement's handbook of João Nunes Tinoco (1616 – 1690), both still extant in manuscript format. The examination of these sources reveals an entangled notion in what concerns construction materials and techniques, about which practical issues seem to prevail, but where the ancient citations back up are sometimes still required.