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 (circa 1118-1170), Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered 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 sheets, 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. Copy slightly cropped, probably washed. Cover page with restoration in the lower outer corner; other minor marginal restorations. Recent binding, full of rigid parchment. Inocêncio, II, p. 141. Anselmo, 60. BN (16th century), 314. King D. Manuel II Library, 194.