BRAGA. ARQUIDIOCESE.- Constituições do arce | bispado de Braga.- Lisboa: Germão Galharde, 1538.- [10

BRAGA. ARQUIDIOCESE.- Constituições do arce | bispado de Braga.- Lisboa: Germão Galharde, 1538.- [10], LXXXIIII f.; 28 cm.- E., First printed constitutions of the Archbishopric of Braga (the second were only printed in 1697, a lot after, therefore, of the archdiocesan council of 1639). Entirely composed in Gothic characters, the edition opens with an architectural frontispiece, open in wooden matrix (verso in white), presenting the initials IHS inscribed on the pediment; in the centre the coat of arms of Infante D. Henrique, archbishop of Braga; At the bottom, the simple title, the only typed element. Eight folios follow with the “Tauoada das constitutions” and another with the prologue; the text of the constitutions themselves occupies the other folios numbered from I to LXXXIIII. On the back of the final folio, the following colophon: ¢Foram acabadas de imprimir estas cõstituições em a cidade de Lisboa p Germã galharde frances. Per mãdado do muyto alto e muito excele[n]te pncepe o senhor ifante dõ Anriq eleito arcebispo senhor d braga pmas das espanhas come[n]datario e ppetuo administrador do mosteiro de sãta Cruz | + | de coimbra a. xxx. dias do mes d mayo de mil e qnhëtos e trinta e oyto annos. | ++ | +. Copy very cropped, with damage to the title page (top margin folded) and four current titles; small wormhole on the inner margin of 11 sheets (f. LX to LXX); some stains (tidal) and signs of handling; marginal notes from the time and signs of reading and use. Circular hand stamp identified, on the second sheet; stamp of the House of Azevedo at the beginning of the prologue (lot nº 847 of the auction held in 1921/22). Ex-libris by Victor d’Avila Perez (lot no. 1904 from the auction held in 1940). It also includes, on the back cover, two printed labels: Do Monsenhor Ferreira.; S. d’Almeida e Brito. Binding from the beginning of the 19th century(?), with wormholes and loose top folder (smooth spine, gold decorated, recoverable). Inocêncio, II, p. 99. Anselmo, 615. National Library (16th Century), 94. Library of D. Manuel II, 65.