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Informaçam de direito feita pello Licenceado … em favor de Ruy de Moura Tellez na causa que com elle traz Dona Felippa de Meneses sobre a successão dos morgados que vagarão por Alvaro Gonçalvez de Moura seu filho.

FELIX, Clemente.

  • Publisher: Lisbon, Por Pedro Crasbeeck, 1615.
Lisbon, Por Pedro Crasbeeck, 1615.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary limp vellum (with two ties and remains of two others; stained and nearly detached). Woodcut arms on title-page. Woodcut genealogical diagram on verso of final preliminary leaf. Single small, at times tiny pinpoint wormhole in lower margin of gatherings B through R, not affecting text; considerable dampstaining; 2.5-cm. tear in outer blank margin of title page, title page slightly soiled. Nevertheless in good condition. Contemporary signature on title page. (3), 76, (5) ll. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this rare work on inheritance law, which is also of significance for its genealogical information. The author wrote several other informações, which according to Innocêncio are "estimadas no seu genero, e pouco vulgares." Felix studied law at Coimbra and practiced forensic law in Lisbon. He died in 1656. *** Arouca F56 (collation agrees with our copy, referring to a copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal). Monteverde 2270 (collation agrees with our copy). Innocêncio II, 80: with imprecise collation, calling for vi pp., 76 ll., plus index. Barbosa Machado, I, 591-2. Not in Palha. Not in Gubián, Nepomuceno, Fernandes Thomaz, Azevedo-Samodães (which lists another work by the author), Ameal or Avila-Perez. Porbase locates two copies: one at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, with the same collation as our copy but with worming affecting the text in gatherings M through S; another at the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa with only 8 pp. at the end; also citing five later works by the author. Not located in Jisc. Not located in Melvyl. Not located in NUC.

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