O principe dos patriarcas S. Bento
Subtitle: ... de sua vida, discursada em emprezas politicas e predicaueis
By: pello ... Fr. Joam dos Prazeres ...
Contributors: Gomes, Francisco; Barros, Manuel Leal de, 1622-1691
Publisher: Na impressas de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello ...
Published: 1683
Place of publication: [Lisbon?]
Language: por
Subjects: History; Emblems; Benedictines
Notes: Title page and frontispiece of v. 1 engraved; imprint from frontispiece.  Vol. 2 has printed t.p. with imprint: Lisboa : Na officina de Joam Galram, Anno de 1690.

No more published.

Written in response to the Crisol purificativo of Manuel Leal de Barros in contesting the relative primacy of the Augustine and Benedictine rules.  Cf. Rezam e defensam do titulo do livro, p. [iii]-[xi].

Pagination: v. 1, [2 leaves of plates], [xxxvi], 364, [19] p.; v. 2, [xxiv], 482 p.

Signatures: v. 1, ³*⁴, ⁴*⁶A-⁴Aa-Xx⁴Yy⁶, ⁵*⁴, ⁶*⁶; v. 2, *⁴**⁴***⁴A-Z⁴Aa-Zz⁴Aaa-Ooo⁴Ppp² (last blank).

Includes bibliographical references, indexes, and errata.

Emblematic engravings introduce chapters; initials and tail pieces.

Engravings in v. 1 by Francisco Gomes, and Clemens (Clemente) Billingue (t.p. and frontispiece), and by Duarte (few signed) in v. 2.