Este he o liuro [e] legéda : que fala de todolos feytos [e] payxoões dos sãtos martires, em lingoagem portugues, cõ apayxõ de Nosso Senhor, assy como ha escreuerõ os sanctos quatro euañelistas, [e] assy com duas tauoas s. hùa geeral [e] outra particular q[ue] chamã os capitulos [e] folhas. Per espeçial mãdado do muy alto [e] muy poderoso señor Rey Dom Manuel empremido : Com preuilegio de sua alteza.

Format:

Book

Series:

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs.

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs

Language:

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Martyrs--Legends--Early works to 1800.

Martyrs.

Saints--Legends--Early works to 1800.

Saints.

Genre:

Legends.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 unnumbered pages, ccxxij pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Este é o livro e legenda que fala de todos os feitos e paixões dos santos mártires, em linguagem português

Place of Publication:

[Lisboa] : [João Pedro de Bonhomini], [1513]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Caption title on folio in red; woodcut historiated initials, many with scenes from the life of Christ, decorative initials.

Colophon: Empremido com muyta deligèçia [e] despesa. em a muy nobre çidade de Lixboa pelo muy hòrrado Iohà Pedro Bonhominy. Em. xvij dias do mes dagosto. de mil [e] quinhintos [e] treze annos (from Livros antigos, pages 250).

Errors in leaf numbering folio l (id est 50), xcvi, cciiij, ccxij, ccxv-ccvij.

Includes index.

Library copy imperfect, total leaf count [20], ccxxij, [1] leaves, lacking final colophon leaf and the seven woodcut illustrations, folio [19]-[26] (as described in Livros antigos, pages 239-240), except for l folio, without illustrations, possibly folio [20], [22], [23] or [25].

Prologue by Father Gaubert for this 1513 compilation of saints' lives, translated from the Spanish, possibly originally compiled by Jean Gerson (compare Livros antigos portrait).

Text in double columns to the page, in black letter type.

Title in woodcut floral border, in red and black, above it royal arms of Portugal and armillary sphere, repeated on folio [i] recto; on verso full pages woodcut of Dom Manuel seated on a throne.

Reproduction of the original from Oliveira Lima Library, The Catholic University of America.

OCLC:

956405742

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.