RODRIGUES, Frei Manuel, O.F.M.- EXPLICACION | DE LA BVLLA DE LA | SANCTA CRVZADA. | Y de las clausulas de los Iubileos y cõfesionarios | que ordinariamente suele conceder su Sancti- | dad, muy prouechosa para Predicadores, Curas, y Confessores, aun en los Reynos donde | no ay Bulla. Compuesta por el Padre Fray Ma | nuel Rodriguez Lusitano... | [...] | Diuidese este libro en tres partes, como | se vera a la buelta desta oja.- [Lisboa]: Impresso por Antonio Aluarez, 1591.- [4], 328, [2, 279, 1 br.] f.; 15 cm.- E. The Bull of the Holy Cross, created in the 12th century and reformed several times, granted graces, privileges and indulgences to the faithful who initially contributed to the crusades and, later, to all initiatives whose purpose was the expansion of Catholicism. It was extinguished only in 1914, by Benedict XV. Fr. Manuel Rodrigues (1545-1613), a Discalced Franciscan, was born in Estremoz. The work had three editions, two in 1591 and another in 1592. This copy belongs to a variant not described in the bibliographies, presenting, right after the group of 328 sheets, two sheets with their own title page, but without imprint, a “Contitutio moderatoria” of Pope Gregory XIV; then follows the “Table copiosa de todo lo que contiene en lostreatos de esta libro”, as per the copy of the BNP. Slightly cropped but clean copy, with occasional period notes and rare underlining. Contemporary binding, completely flexible parchment, with new endpapers. Anselmo, 18 (variant), Gusmão, 918 (variant). BN (16th century), 820.