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[SILVA, D. Jorge da].- TRACTADO EM | QVE SE CONTEM A PAI- | xam de Christo, segundo p Texto dos | Euangelistas muy deuotamente mora- | lizada: & outra Doctrina muito deuo- | ta & proueitosa, q[ue] mostra os proueitos | de se juntar hu[m]a Alma cõ Xpo & duas | Elegias à bem auenturada Magdalena | [gravura xilográfica] | Cõ hu[m] aparelho pera cõfessar & cõmu[m]- | gar: & hum virtuoso Exercicio, | & a Doctrina Christam. Com licença do Sancto Officio.- Euora: em casa de Martim de Burgos, impressor da Vniversidade, 1589.- [8], clxix, [6] f.; 13 cm.- E. Devotional work attributed by the bibliography to D. Jorge da Silva (†1578), nobleman and State councilor who accompanied King D. Sebastião I on the tragic journey to Africa. In the preface (2nd and 3rd preliminary pages), the printer Martim de Burgos, states: “This liuro, deuoto Lector, I print in this city Deuora meu Pay que[que] Deos aja, per duas veses & toda a copia dos liuros se dispe[n]deo muito depressa...”, so this is the third edition, the first two having been printed by André de Burgos, also in Évora, in 1571(?) and 1574 respectively (Anselmo, 379 & 409). Edition mainly composed in round characters, with some epigraphs and current titles in Gothic. Cropped copy, with slight browning and occasional minor stains; title page a little shorter; carmine edges, with excess ink sometimes staining some margins. 20th century full sheepskin binding. Inocêncio, IV, p. 175 and VI, p. 333. Anselmo, 428. Biblioteca Nacional (16th Century), 853. Bibliotec de D. Manuel II, not mentioned.