LEÃO, Duarte Nunes de.- ORTHOGRAPHIA | DA LINGOA | PORTVGVESA. | Obra vtil, & necessaria, assi pera bem screuer a lingoa | Hespanhol, como a Latina, & quaesquer outras, | que da Latina teem origem. | ¶ Item hum tractado dos pontos das clausulas. | Pelo Licenciade Duarte Nunez do Lião.- Em Lisboa: Per Ioão de Barreira, 1576.- [4], 78 f.; 19 cm.- E. A work of the utmost importance for the knowledge of the evolution of the Portuguese language, whose author (1530-1608), an erudite historian, born in Évora, in addition to the grammatical, orthographic and lexicographical aspects, which are sometimes controversial, develops a text full of erudition that characterizes him as a man of the Renaissance. Duarte Nunes, a law graduate and judge of the Casa da Suplicação, upon the death of Cardinal King D. Henrique, warmly embraced the cause of Philip I, whose right to succession he defended in writing against those who challenged it. Slightly trimmed copy, with slight stains (from humidity?); title page with old, scratched ownership and small signature. It is, however, complete and solid. Ex-libris by Victor d’Avila Perez (lot no. 5369 from the auction held in 1939/40). Full parchment binding, not contemporary. Inocêncio, II, p. 210. Anselmo, 225. Samodães, 2244. BN (16th century), 410. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, 246.