HISTOREA | DA VIDA E MARTYRIO | do glorioso sancto Thomas Arcebispo, se- | nhor de Cantuaria, Primas de Inglater- | ra, Legado perpetuo da sancta see A- | postolica, tresladada nouamen | te de latim em lingoage[m] | Portugues.- Coimbra: Per João Alvarez, impressor da vniversidade de Coimbra, M. D. LIIII. [1554].- [8], cccj [i. é ccciij], [1 br., 20] p.; 20 cm.- E. First and only Portuguese edition of a free translation from Latin, attributed to Diego Afonso de Miranda, of the oldest biography of Saint Thomas Becket (ca. 1118-1170), Archbishop of Canterbury, assassinated in his cathedral by followers of Henry II, and canonized just three years after his death by Pope Alexander III. With the exception of the preliminary pages, the first lines of the text (p. 1), the colophon (p. cccj) and the current titles and first line of the final Tavoada, all the rest of the text is composed in Gothic rotunda characters. Slightly cropped copy, probably washed. Title page with restoration in the lower outer corner; other minor marginal restorations. Fresh, full binding of stiff parchment. Inocêncio, II, p. 141. Anselmo, 60. BN (16th century), 314. D. Manuel II Library, 194.