'Libro Da Santificacao: Nassimento'
'Libro Da Santificacao: Nassimento: Penitencia: Vida: e Morte: Do Gloriosso Sao Joham. Baptista: Tradusido e Recupillado Dediuerssas Limguoas Em nosso uulgar Portugues: e Illustrado nos Lugares da scriptura Sagrada: & com outros Autores: Por Antonio Pireira: Natural e Visinho da Villa Destremos ...'. dedicated to don Fernao Mīz Mascarenhas, rector of the university of Coimbra: a Life of St. John the Baptist in two books (thirty-two chapters), with a prologue and (fol. 189) a table of contents dated 1591. The table, though an addition, is practically contemporary, and the notes and corrections may well be in the hand of the author.
Dates
- Creation: Written late in the 16th century in Portugal
Extent
200 Leaves
Language of Materials
- Portuguese
Preferred Citation
Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Bodl. 855, fols. 1-2]
Shelfmark:
MS. Bodl. 855
Collection ID (for staff)
CMD ID 17999
Abstract
'Libro Da Santificacao: Nassimento'
Biographical / Historical
Biographical details unknown.
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. II, no. 2616
Custodial History
Manuscript 265 acquired by the Bodleian Library
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in 1600. It is the first MS. recorded to have entered the Bodleian. Cr.
Physical Facet
On paper, binding, stamped green calf with gold ornament, contemporary Portuguese work
Dimensions
8 3/8 × 6 in.
Topical
- Title
- 'Libro Da Santificacao: Nassimento'
- Status
- Published
- Date
- EAD version 2020 by Alice Whichelow
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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