SOARES, D. Frei João, O.A.D. (Bispo de Coimbra).- COMMENTARIVM | in sacrosanctum domini nostri IESV Christi Euangelium, | secundum Matthæum: rectu[m] & synceru[m] sensum explicans. | Plurimas etiã hæreticoru[m] minimè orthodoxas opiniones, egregiê dilues. | Cõcionatoribus, disputatibus, & omnibus catholicis apprimê vtile. | A Reuerendiss. Dño. D Ioanne Soarez, Episcopo Conimbricensi, | & Arganili Comite, æditum. | [gravura xilográfica com as armas episcopais] | Cum gratia & priuilegio Regio ad decenium. | Indice etiam locupletissimo adiecto.- Conimbricæ: Apud Ioannem Barrerium Typographum Regium. [Anno M. D. LXII. 1562].- [4], 577 p.; 26 cm.- E. Br. João Soares (1507-1572), born in Urrô (Penafiel), was a hermit of Saint Augustine and participated in the third session of the Council of Trent (1561/63); he was confessor of King D. João III and bishop of Coimbra between 1545 and the year of his death. He left us the constitutions of his diocese (Coimbra, 1548) and an extensive bibliography on religious topics, including commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew, Luke and Mark. In 1548, he was responsible for publishing the new “Constitutions” of his bishopric. Second edition, with the royal privilege occupying the front of the second folio. The first edition (Anselmo, 158), in addition to other differences, presents the privilege on the verso of the first folio. On the verso of the last page (missing from the BNP copy) there is a colophon dated October 1561. Copy, cropped, with ablation of the last line of the press foot (with the date) on the title page. For the rest, a very clean and complete copy. Full sheepskin binding, from the 17th century(?) with mottled patine, keeping the original endpapers intact, on plain paper. Anselmo, 164. BN (16th century), 855. D. Manuel II Library refers only to the 1566 edition. Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 1803 (the same copy, with the wrong cataloging as being from the first edition) .