Estatuto da veneravel Irmandade dos Clerigos Pobres, com o titulo da Caridade, e patrocinio da Santissima Trindade, sita no Hospital Real de Todos os Santos de novo reformado, e addicionado no anno de 1731. Sendo o Juiz o R.do Manoel de Souza Borges, Cura na Paroquial Igreja de N.S. dos Martyres. Mordomos os R.dos Joam Antunes Monteyro, Prior da Paroquial de S. Nicolao, e Francisco Nunes Collares, Cura na mesma Igreja do Hospital. Confirmado por autoridade ordinaria em 6 de April deste anno de 1732, e no mesmo anno dado à estampa por ordem da mesma Veneravel Irmandade.

Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Pedro Ferreira, (1732).. FIRST EDITION. Folio (28 x 19.5 cm.), contemporary mottled sheep (sound but very worn), spine with raised bands in five compartments (also rather worn, 2 pinpoint wormholes at head), text block edges speckled red. Woodcut vignette on title page. Different large woodcut headpieces on second leaf recto, p. 1, and penultimate leaf recto. Typographical headpiece on eleventh leaf recto. Many woodcut initials, two very large. Wide column at outer margins with printed side notes. Printed on thick paper of excellent quality. A few small wormholes in upper and outer margins, but crisp and clean. Front free endleaf is later, pasted on to a stub of the original. In good condition. Small rectantular (3 x 6.5 cm.) early printed book-ticket tipped on the upper outer corner of front pastedown "Do Bispo Inquisidor Geral // D. José Maria de Mello". Engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown and armorial blindstamp in blank portion of title page of of J.[osé] C.[aetano] Mazziotti Salema Garção. (12 ll.), 59 pp., (3 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION. These statutes were issued again in 1845. The Irmandade dos Clerigos Pobres was founded in 1452 to succor the poor; its home base was the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos, Lisbon's most important hospital. Membership was strictly limited. The regulations set out how the priests and laymen are to be elected, the election and duties of officers, when and for whom masses are to be said, and so on. The volume begins with a prologue explaining the confusion over the Irmandade's origin and why the statutes are being changed and three pages of licenses bearing the date 1732. The revised statutes have extensive sidenotes with references to earlier versions. At the end is a letter from the Patriarch of Lisbon and an index.Provenance: D. José Maria de Mello (1756-1818), Bispo do Algarve, Inquisidor Geral, and confessor to D. Maria I. J.[osé] C.[aetano] Mazziotti Salema Garção was a noted collector from Oporto and a wolfram magnate.*** Not in Innocêncio. Not in Azevedo-Samodães, Ameal or Palha. For the bookplate, see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos 750. Porbase locates a single copy, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in Jisc. KVK (51 databases searched) locates only the copy cited by Porbase. Not located in NUC.