MIRANDA, Francisco de Sá de.- AS OBRAS | DO CELEBRADO | LVSITANO, | O doutor Frãcisco de Sá de ...

MIRANDA, Francisco de Sá de.- AS OBRAS | DO CELEBRADO | LVSITANO, | O doutor Frãcisco de Sá de Mirãda. | Collegidas por Manoel de Lyra. | Dirigidas ao muito illustre Senhor dom Ie- | ronymo de Castro, &c. | [gravura xilográfica com as armas de D. Jerónimo de Castro] | Impressas com licença do Supremo Conselho da Santa | Geral Inquisição, & Ordinario. | Anno de 1595. | Com priuilegio Real por dez annos.- [Lisboa]: Manoel de Lyra, 1595.- [8], 186 [i é 184], [3] f.; 18 cm.- E.
Original edition of the works of Sá de Miranda (1481-1558), considered the greatest Portuguese poet of the 16th century, right after Camões, and perhaps the one who most echoed Renaissance ideas to us, with the introduction of new literary forms being significant, namely prose comedy, the new meter, the sonnet, the eclogue, etc. The edition was published posthumously, nearly 30 years after the author's death. The copy corresponds to the collation indicated by Anselmo: the title page (blank verso) bears the coat of arms of D. Jerónimo de Castro, in copperplate printing; there is a folio with the licenses (f.) and the permit (v.); the following sheet includes the dedication (f.), two poems, a sonnet by Jerónimo de Morais and a “carmen” by Sebastião Alfaro (v.); the fourth folio contains a sonnet by D. Manuel de Portugal (f.) and the imprint of the printer Manuel de Lyra (v.) which is repeated on folio 162 (X2 v.). The text itself runs between sheets 1 and 186 (with numerous foliation errors), that is, between folios A1f. and Z8v; on the back of sheet 132 another mark of the printer Manuel de Lira, different from the one described above. At the end we find two folios (¶1 and ¶2) with the “Taboa (or Tavoada) das Rhimas do Autor”, which occupies four pages; there follows a folio such as “¶Auto de approuação these works” (f.) and the errata (v.), with the last blank folio that should complete the section missing from the copy. Copy slightly trimmed, but clean, possibly washed, with the gilt edges. Ex-libris by Walter Corrêa da Sá e Benevides. 20th century binding, full morocco, signed "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London"; squared double fillet with florets in the corners, on the squares, gold closed panels on the spine, roll on the squares and double fillet in the thickness of the folders (protection case). Anselmo, 764. BN (16th century), 500. King D. Manuel II Library, 294.