Dos Reys, Antonio & Sousa Caria, João. Imagens Conceituosas [“Esteemed Images”]

(POETRY).

Officina da Musica

Lisbon

1731

FIRST EDITION. Vol. I (of two). Latin and Portuguese on facing pages. Exquisite headpieces, richly historiated initials.

This sprawling poem is a virtual encyclopedia of Portuguese poets and their literary creations. The footnotes are full of bibliographic information. In the Index of poets mentioned in the work, one notes the names of several Marrano poets: Antonio Henriques Gomes, Bernardino Ribeiro, Manuel Bocarro Frances Rosales, Manuel Tomas, Miguel de Barr[i]os, Miguel da Silveira, Violante do Ceo and Manoel de Leão. World Cat lists but a single copy, that in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library of Toronto. According to the precis in WorldCat, a second volume of this work was issued in Lisbon in 1733.