Arte da lingua de Angola
Subtitle: oeferecida [sic] a virgem Senhora N. do Rosario, mãy 4, Senhora dos mesmos pretos
By: pelo P. Pedro Dias da Companhia de Jesu
Publisher: Na officina de Miguel Deslandes, impressor de Sua Magestade. Com todos as licenças necessarias
Published: 1697
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por; bnt
Number of pages: 48
Other titles: Arte da lingva de Angola.
Notes: First edition of the second published Bantu grammar; preliminaries refer to the Jesuit's work in Brazil. Father Pedro Dias, was born in Gouveia, Brazil, and worked as a missionary to African slaves there.

Signatures: pi⁴ (pi1, pi4 versos blank) A-C⁸

Woodcut Jesuit IHS vignette on title page; head piece; initials.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I:263.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, XVI:5061.

Backer-Somervogel III:col. 41, no. 1.

Alden, J.E. European-Americana, 697/60.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance from the Harper Fund.