VILLEGAS, Pe. Alonso de.- FLOS SANCTORVM | E HISTORIA GENERAL DA | VIDA E FEITOS DE IESV CHRISTO, DEOS NOSSO | SENHOR, E DE TODOS OS SANCTOS DE QVE REZA E FAZ | festa a Igreja Catholica, conforme o Breuiario Romano reformado por decreto do Sancto | Concilio Tridentino: Iunto com as vidas dos Sanctos propios de Castella, & Portugal: & de | outros Extravagantes. [...] | Colligido tudo de Auctores graues & aprovados. | Feito em Castelhano pollo Mestre Alon2025/3/8so de Villegas Capellão na S. Igreja de Toledo: Traduzido ago- | ra nouamente em lingoajem Portugues, à industria de Simão Lopes Mercador de Liuros. | Acrecentado de nouo a vida de São Iacinto da Ordem de São Domingos: Canonizado pollo Papa Cle- | mente, VIII em Roma, na Igreja de São Pedro, a xvij de Abril, do anno do Senhor de 1594.- 2025/3/8Impresso em Lisboa: em casa de Simão Lopez, 1598.- [10], 58, 431 f.: il.: il.; 35 cm.- E With the title “Flos Sanctorum Nuevo”, the Toledan Alonso de Villegas (1534-1615) composed his most popular work, inspired by those of Aloísio Lipomani (1500-1559), Laurentius Surius (1522-1578) and also by the “Legenda Dourada” by Voragine (1228-1298). The work, often reprinted, was first published in Toledo in 1578 (first part), with the author declaring that he had finished writing it on 6 January 1577. A copy of the work, with very special characteristics, from the first Portuguese edition, composed in two columns, illustrated with 19 xilographies, which rarely exceed half a page in size. It presents the following imperfections: frontispiece (printed in black and red) cut by the frame (xilographic fillet); six missing sheets: +2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (preliminary sheets) and last sheet (Hhhh7 or ¶1?), replaced by text typed in the third quarter of the 19th century, in the private printing shop of the Count of Azevedo; last five preliminary pages and first text page (A1), with the outer margins reconstructed; some minor, marginal wormholes, without affecting the typographic stain; rough restoration (without loss of support) on sheet yy8; acidity, occasional stains, some handling and excessive trimming, still retaining some margin. Stamps of the House of Azevedo on sheets +10v and A1r (lot no. 3529 from the auction held in 1921/22, with reproduction of the frontispiece). Ex-libris by Victor d’Avila Perez (lot no. 8058 from the auction held in 1939/40). Contemporary binding(?), entirely in sheepskin, restored in the 19th century(?), with the initials PROFF engraved in gold at the foot of the spine. Anselmo, 819. BN (16th century), 922. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II does not mention it. We are not aware of the existence of other copies of the same work and edition, apart from the three from BNP (all mutilated).