Feyra mystica de Lisboa
Subtitle: armada em hu[m]a trezena do divino portuguez Santo Antonio
By: pelo M. R. P. M.  Fr. Antonio do Rosario, religioso Capucho da Provincia de S. Antonio de Brasil, & missionario do ditto estado, offerecida à Soberana Magestade da Senhora do Rosario pelo illustrissimo, & reverendissimo senhor dom Mathias de Figueyredo e Mello, bispo, & governador de Pernambuco, & do conselho de S. Magestade
Contributors: Santos, Carlos
Publisher: Na Officina de Joaõ Galraõ.
Published: 1691
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Sermons; Pride and vanity; Portuguese Sermons; Christianity
Other titles: Trezena de S. Antonio.
Notes: Half-title leaf reads: Trezena de S. Antonio. Parve, nec invideo, sine me liber ibis in urbem, quae patria ingentis dicitur Antonij.

Colophon, p. [1], 3rd count, reads: Lisboa. Na Officina de Joam Galram. Com todas as licenças necessarias. Anno de 1691.

Another edition printed in the same year in Lisbon by A. Pedrozo Galrão under title: Feira mystica de Lisboa (European Americana, 691/116)

The author uses Brazilian scenery in allegorical examples.

Consists of thirteen sermons on the subject of vanity and excesses, particularly of the upper classes.

"Sermam de S. Antonio repartido em duas partes, prégado no serafico Convento de Santo Antonio do Recife com o senhor exposto no dia do Santo, Anno de 1688", p. 147-169, 171-189, 2nd and 3rd counts, has separate caption title.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a² (a1 verso blank) **⁻****⁴ A-2D⁴ (B1, C4, F3, H2, I4, Q1, R3, T1, X4, 2D4 versos blank)

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Engraved frontispiece bound following half-title leaf depicts Saint Anthony of Padua preaching to a well-dressed crowd with a speech scroll reading "Vanitas vanitatv met omnia vanitas"

Silva, I.F. da. Diccionário bibliográphico portuguez, I: p. 262.

Barbosa Machado, D. Bibliotheca lusitana historica, critica, e cronologica, I: p. 378.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), II: p. 748.

European Americana 691/115.

Text primarily in Portuguese with some passages in Latin.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum with remnants of ties.

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

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Dr. Carlos Santos: bookplate on front pastedown; P.M.B.: bookplate on rear pastedown.