Catalog of printed works in the 17th century: the collection of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Lisbon

Exhaustive bibliographic collection and meticulous cataloging of the documentary and bibliographic heritage of the 17th century from the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. Identification and cataloging of the bibliographic heritage of the secular institution of the capital, consisting of a total of 946 printed works, with 304 printed in Portuguese territory and the remaining from foreign printing. The nearly one thousand copies cataloged in this publication come from three main cores: the funds of the Misericórdia de Lisboa, the Convent of S. Pedro de Alcântara, and the library of the Marquês de Alegrete Palace, in Charneca do Lumiar. Júlio Caio Velloso presents to the reader the relics that are part of the collection of the Misericórdia de Lisboa, composed of titles from different areas of knowledge - Descriptive Sciences, Biblical Exegesis, Diplomacy, Canon Law, Civil Law, Philosophy, Ecclesiastical History, Profane History; Legislation, Poetry, Theology, among others - a collection that brings together, in the author's words, “one of the most expressive documentary sets of the 17th century in Portugal.”

Author: Júlio Caio Velloso

Year of publication: 1994
Publisher: SCML
ISBN: 9729559740

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