Ordenaçoẽs, e leis do reino de Portugal
By: recopiladas per mandado do muito alto catholico & poderoso rei Dom Philippe o Pri.°.
Contributors: Perret, Pieter, 1555-1639; Portugal. Sovereign (1580-1598 : Philip I)
Publisher: no Mostr.° de S. Vicente Camara Real de s Magde da Ordem dos Conegos regulares por Pedro Craesbeeck
Published: 1603
Place of publication: Impressas em Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Colonies; Law; CPJCB
Work titles: Laws, etc
Notes: "The Filipino code was the system of law that governed Brazil during the entire colonial period". (Moraes, R.B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana)

Errata on p.[2], at end.

Signatures: pi⁴ (-pi4) A-R⁸ S⁶(-S6) T¹° ²A-²E⁸ ²F¹° [fleuron]² ³A-³L⁸ (-L8) ⁴A-³H⁸ (-³H8) ⁵A-³K⁸ ³L¹° (A1, T10, [fleuron]2,²L5, ³L7, ³L10, chi4, ²chi1 versos blank) (chi1 missigned 1, chi2 missigned 2)

Pages 261 and 293 (first count) misnumbered 259 and 263; p.39 and 63 (second count) misnumbered 36 and 39; p.99 (third count) misnumbered 10.

Engraved title page with arms of Portugal: signed: Petrus Perret fe.

Moraes, R.B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana, II, p.117.

Pinto de Mattos, p.431.

Rodrigues, J.C.  Bib. brasiliense, 1808, note.

John Carter Brown Library copy has manuscript annotations throughout the text in 2 or more contemporary hands.

John Carter Brown Library copy is signed in manuscript by two of the editors on p.180, book five: Melchior d'Amaral and Henrique de Sousa. According to the text, copies without the two signatures were not valid.

John Carter Brown Library copy is interleaved throughout. These blank leaves contain contemporary manuscript annotations.

John Carter Brown Library copy also has small leaves of blue paper containing manuscript notes inserted throughout.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Metcalf Fund.