Description
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- Composta, e descuberto pelo missionario apostolico Angelo de Sequeira, protonotario apostolico de D. Santidade, do habito de Saõ Pedro, natural de cidade de S. Paulo dedicada e offerecido ao Serenissimo Rey S. Joseph I. deste nome.
- According to Moraes, there is some confusion about just how many plates were originally meant to be included with this volume, and ranges from 4-18 plates of varied styles.
- Although this work is a devotional and contains primarily prayers to saints, the preface contains details of the methods used to make discoveries and exploration while conducting missionary work in Brazil, and of the dangers and deprivations encounted on those journeys.
- Signatures: pi⁸ (pi1, pi6 versos blank) **⁸ (**5 verso blank) ***⁸ ****² A-2P⁸ (2P8 verso blank)
- Errata: p. 606.
- Engraved head pieces; initials.
- Text primarily in Portuguese with some prayers in Latin.
Citation
"Botica preciosa, e thesouro precioso da Lapa:
em que como em botica, e thesouro se achaõ todos os remedios para o corpo, para a alma, e para a vida, e huma receita das vocaçoens dos Santos para remedio de todas as enfermidades, e varios remedios, e milagres de N[ossa] Senhora da Lapa, e muitas novenas, devoçoens, e avisos importantes para os pays de familia ensinarem a doutrina Christã, e seus filhos, e criados
"
(1754).
John Carter Brown Library.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:732993/
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