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MANUSCRITO.- PROFECIAS de varios avtores.- Século XVII (ca. 1650).- 300 f.; 29 cm.- E. One-handed manuscript, in poorly maintained cursive, from the 17th century (1st half), containing a collection of close to 100 texts relating to Portuguese and foreign prophecies (the title indicated above was transcribed from the spine of the volume). The codex opens with an extensive “Taboada do que consta este livro” (9 p.), registering about a hundred entries, locating each one of them on the respective sheet (the text runs between sheets 1 and 286). Apparently, the texts are arranged approximately chronologically, the oldest being dated 1598 and the most recent 1643. From the long table of contents, we highlight the following themes with epigraphs: Juízo tirado sobre o nascimento do sancto Rey Dom Sebastião; Relação da vida de elrei Dom Sebastiam; Notáveis tribulações que padeceu [o] Rey David; Portento de Palermo; Como hade ser Emperador em Lisboa cabeça do Mundo; Profecias da Sebila heroica; Profecias de Sam Frei Gil natural de Portugal aparecidas na livraria do mosteiro de Santa Cruz em Coimbra; Profecias de hum hermitam castelhano que se achou no anno de 1602 na China; Treslado de um cartapacio escrito em letra gótica; Sepultura do nosso santo e primeiro Rei Dom Afonso Amriques; Milagre sosedido am a Vila de Rei no anno de 1634; Vizão do Pe. Alonço Rodrigues da Companhia de Jesus [em 1607]; etc. etc. Some texts are accompanied by drawings, sometimes with astronomical motifs. Volume with some browning caused by iron gall ink, but entirely legible. Contemporary binding, full sheepskin, with blind decoration on the covers and spine badly worm damaged.