Historia do predestinado peregrino, e seu irmam precito
Subtitle: Em a qual de baxo de huma misterioza parabola se descreve o sucesso feliz, do que se ha de salvar, & infeliz sorte do que se ha de condenar
By: Composta pello P. Alexandre de Gusmam da Companhia de Iesu, da Provincia do Brazil
Publisher: Na Officina da Universidade
Published: 1685
Place of publication: Evora
Language: por
Number of pages: 364
Notes: Signatures: [dagger]⁴ A-Z⁸ ²[dagger]⁴ ([dagger]1 and [dagger]3 versos blanks, [dagger]4 blank)

Originally published: Lisbon, 1682.

The first edition of this allegorical morality novel is considered to be the " first work of fiction written in Brazil by a Portuguese author." (Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana)

Moraes, R.B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), p.383.

Silva, I.F. de.  Diccionario bib. portuguez, I, p.32.

Barbosa Machado, I, p.95.

Pinto de Mattos, p.320.

Backer-Sommervogel, III, col. 1961.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum. This copy has contemporary (?) manuscript annotations.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the JCB Associates.