JERÓNIMO DE AZAMBUJA, O.P., Frei.- REVERENDI | PATRIS FRATIS HIERONYMI | AB OLEASTRO LVSITANI, PRÆ- | DICATORII ORDINIS, AC SACRAE | Theologiæ Professoris, atque hæreeticæ prauitatis | apud Inclytam Olysoponem Inquisitoris Cõ | mentaria in Mósi Pentateuchum, iuxta. M. | Sanctis Pagnini Lucensis eiusde[m] ordinis interpretationem: quibus Hebraica ve | ritas exactissime expliactur...- Olyssipone: apud Iohannem Barrerium, Regium Typographum. Anno à nato Seruatore nostro Iesu Christo. M.D.L.VI. [1556].- [8], 315, [16] p.; 27 cm. Junto com: -----.- [...] Commentaria | in Exodum...- Olyssiponi: Ex officina Ioannis Blauij Coloniensis, 1557.- [4], 96 f.; 27 cm. Junto com: -----.- [...] Comentaria | in Leuiticum...- Olisipone: Apud Ioannem Blauium, 1557.- [2], 67 f.; 27 cm. Junto com: -----.- [...] Cõmentaria in Librum | Numerorum.- Olyssipone: Ex officina Ioannis Blauij Coloniensis, 1557.- [2], 86 f.; 27 cm. -----.- Comentaria in li | brum. Deutero | nomii.- Olissipone: Ex officina Ioãnis Blauij Coloniensis, 1558.- [1 br., 3], 69, [1] f.; 27 cm.- E. Fr. Jerónimo de Azambuja († 1563), also known as Oleastro, religious of the Order of Saint Dominic, of which he was provincial, was one of the most prominent theologians of the 16th century. Deep knowledge of Latin and Greek languages; he participated in the Council of Trent where he was noted for his opposition to any kind of innovation; as High Inquisitor (1555) he practiced the greatest violence and cruelty. Original edition of his main work, the “Comments on the Pentateuch”, divided into five parts or books, the first printed by João Barreira and the others by João Blávio de Colónia. Each of the parts has its own title page and pagination, being autonomous as biblio-typographic species. The four books printed by João Blávio include, at the end, his printer's mark. Complete copy (with possible lack of some blank pages), a little disjointed, with signs of handling, censored in the first part: on the title page, five purge inscriptions (as well as two ownerships and two stamps, one of which was from the Franciscans of Balaguer); the main censure concerns the preface “Ad lectorem”, as in other copies, which, in addition to having several crossed out lines, presents a page (±14x14 cm) pasted on about 28 lines on the front of the page *iii. In the third part, some lines were also censored. Some worm holes, sometimes deep, but always marginal; occasional minor blemishes. Contemporary binding, full parchment, almost detached from the core and without endpapers, but retrievable. Author and abbreviated title inscribed in ink on the façade or fore edge (front edge of the leaves). For an introduction to the work, see Manuel Augusto Rodrigues, «A obra exegética de Fr. Jerónimo de Azambuja», in Biblos, LV, 1979, p. 183-195. Anselmo, 141 and 320 to 323. Lisbon Academy of Sciences, 9 to 13. BN (Século XVI), 389 to 393. Reiss & Auverman (L40), 1772. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, RES 288-284 Adq.