RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 50

February 2006

 

 

PART I:

Bibliography, Books about Books, Dictionaries,

General Reference

 
See also items 33, 44, 47, 53, 61, 71, 72, 73, 114, 123, 186 & 187.

1. Annualia Verbo: temas, factos, figuras, 2005/2006. Lisbon: Verbo, 2005. Lge. 8° (26 x 18 cm.), publ. gilt- and white-stamped buckram with dust jacket. 701 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-22-2818-2. $110.00

Initial yearbook for the 29-volume Enciclopédia Verbo Luso-Brasileira de Cultura, Edição século XXI, the main text of which was completed in 2003. Among the contributors are Francisco Sarsfield Cabral, Manuel Braga de Cruz, Vasco Graça Moura, J. Pinharanda Gomes, Daniel Pires, António Braz Teixeira, Eugénio Lisboa, Alexandre Delgado, António Pedro Vicente, Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão, Fernando J.B. Martinho, and João Bigotte Chorão. The volume was directed by Fernando Guedes and coordinated by Jorge Colaço.
 

2. CARAPINHA, Rute, and Sandra Oliveira, eds. Arquivo da Casa Sobral: Inventário. Sobral de Monte Agraço: Câmara Municipal, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 382 pp., illus. in color. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-98444-4-5. $40.00

Excellent work, unfortunately little-known outside of the picturesque town of Sobral de Monte Agraço, situated between Bucelas and Torres Vedras, about 50 kilometers north of Lisbon. The founder of the house of Sobral was Joaquim Inácio da Cruz Sobral, 1 Morgado do Sobral (also after 1768 2 Morgado da Alagoa? 1725-1781; born and died in Lisbon). He had an engraved bookplate, and we have seen evidence that he was a keen bibliophile. On the bookplate, see Avelar Duarte, Ex-libris portugueses heráldicos 678; also Henrique de Avellar in Arte do ex-libris, fascículo 91, vol. XII, pp. 1-9. Cf. Grande enciclopédia XXIX, 384-5 for a slightly different version of the arms and some additional information about the family.

 
3. CID, Isabel. Incunábulos da Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Evora: Catálogo abreviado. Evora: Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital, 1988. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. Color frontis., xxviii, 138 pp., (2 ll.), 26 ll. illus. [printed on both sides]. ISBN: none. $25.00

Includes a fairly detailed and interesting introductory study by José V. de Pina Martins. The 552 catalogue entries are minimalist, but contain references to Hain-Copinger, Haebler, and several other bibliographies. There are useful indices to titles, places of printing and printers as well as a chronological index.

 
4. DIAZ Y DIAZ, M.C., Aires A. Nascimento, J.M. Díaz de Bustamante, M.I. Rebelo Gonçalves, J.E. López Pereira and A. Espírito Santo. HISLAMPA. Hispanorum Index Scriptorum Latinorum Medii Posteriorisque Aeui. Autores Latinos Peninsulares da Epoca dos Descobrimentos (1350-1560). (Lisbon): Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses / Imprensa Nacional / Casa da Moeda, 1993. Mare Liberum. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 473 pp., (3 ll.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-0583-0. $60.00

Introductory matter in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin. Pages 35-126 give dates of birth and death for the authors, pp. 127-473 list the authors and their works, in manuscript and printed versions, with locations.

 
5. Enciclopédia Verbo luso-brasileira de cultura. Edição século XXI. 29 volumes. Lisbon: Verbo, 1998-2003. Antropos. Lge. 8° (26 x 18 cm.), publ. gilt- and white-stamped buckram. xxi pp., 1,414 cols., (1 l.); xx pp., 1,420 cols., (1 l.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,430 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,410 cols., (1 p.); xix pp., 1,406 cols., (1 p); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.).; xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xix pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xix pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.). 2 cols. per page; xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xix pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xx pp., 1,412 cols., (1 l.); xx pp., 1,414 cols., (1 p.); xix pp., 1,378 cols., (1 l.); xix pp., 1,382 cols., (1 l.); xix pp., 1,410 cols., (1 p., 1 l.); xix pp., 1,332 cols., (43 ll.). Main text with 2 cols. per page. Decent quality illus. (about half illus. in color). ISBN: 972-22-1850-6 (complete work); vol. I: 972-22-1851-4; vol. II: 972-22-1864-6; vol. III: 972-22-1866-2; vol. IV: 972-22-1872-7; vol. V: 972-22-1880-8; vol. VI: 972-22-1900-6; vol. VII: 972-22-1918-9; vol. VIII: 972-22-1926-X; vol. IX: 972-22-1942-1; vol. X: 972-22-1954-5; vol. XI: 972-22-1963-4; vol. XII: 972-22-1969-3; vol. XIII: 972-22-1976-6; vol. XIV: 972-22-1987-1; vol. XV: 972-22-1994-4; vol. XVI: 972-22-2003-9; vol. XVII: 972-22-2023-3; vol. XVIII: 972-22-2037-3; vol. XIX: 972-22-2055-1; vol. XX: 972-22-2078-0; vol. XXI: 972-22-2092-6; vol. XXII: 972-22-2092-6 [sic]; vol. XXIII: 972-22-2129-9; vol. XXIV: 972-22-2153-1; vol. XXV: 972-22-2170-1; vol. XXVI: 972-22-2184-1; vol. XXVII: 972-22-2225-2; vol. XXVIII: 972-22-2246-5; vol. XXIX: 972-22-2225-2. 29 volumes. $3,200.00

A substantially revised edition of one of the two major Portuguese-language encyclopedias; this is the only major Portuguese-language encyclopedia which is up-to-date. It is now complete in 29 volumes; the 29th volume includes a brief "Aditamento" as well as a useful 84-page index of contributors, in triple columns. Probably for commercial reasons, the later volumes are a bit less exhausive in their coverage, with the work coming to a screeching halt with volume 29 covering the letters Valóni-Zyl; by comparison, the Grande enciclopédia portuguesa e brasileira took more than three volumes to cover the same territory. The original version of the present work, Verbo-Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Cultura, consisted of 18 volumes published between 1963 and 1976. Three supplementary volumes were published in 1991. Each volume of the present version consists of over 700 pages (with the exception of volume 26, which has exactly 700 pages, including the preliminary and supplementary leaves), with the main body of text in double columns. To our taste there is too much information not specific to Portugal or other Portuguese-speaking countries easily found in English-language reference works as well as in other non-Portuguese references; nevertheless, this is an indispensable reference tool, especially important for its treatment of Portuguese literature, art, and other cultural developments of recent years. Contributors include many of the best Portuguese authorities. The general editor is João Bigotte Chorão.

 
6. Guia das ruas de Lisboa. Lisbon: Progresso, 1992. 16°, orig. illus. wrps. 336 pp., fldg. map. ISBN: none. $25.00

 
7. [INNOCENCIO]. Silva, Innocênio Francisco da, [Pedro Venceslau de] Brito Aranha, J.J. Gomes de Brito, et al. Diccionario bibliographico portuguez: estudos de Innocêncio Francisco da Silva aplicaveis a Portugal e ao Brasil. 25 vols. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1972 (vols. XXIII, XXV); 1987 (vols. I-II); 1998 (vols. III-VII, X-XV); 2002 (vols. XXI, XXII, XXIV); and n.d. (vols. VIII, XIX, XVI-XX). Lge. 8°, publ. gilt-stamped cloth with d.j. (1 l.), lviii [i.e. lxii] pp., (1 l.), 403, (1) pp.; 478 pp., (1 l.); 447, 28 pp., (1 l.); 472 pp., (1 l.); 487, (1) pp.; 474 pp., (1 blank l., 2 ll.), pp. 33-70, (1 l.); 463 pp., (1 l.), pp. [73]-110, (1, 1 ll.); xxxi, 428 pp., (1 l.), pp. [115]-136; xvi, 452 pp.; xxiv, 409 pp., (1 l.); 320 pp., (1, 1 ll.); 414 pp., (1 l.); 385 pp.; (1, 1 ll); 431 pp., (3, 1 ll.); 440 pp., (1, 1 ll.); 421 pp., (1 l.), 3 large folding plates; (4 ll.), 422 pp., (2 ll.); (9 ll.), 412 pp., (1 l.), 4 plates (1 folding); (2 ll.), 406 [i.e. 417] pp., (1 l.), 22 plates (8 folding); (2 ll.), 418 pp., (3 ll.); (2 ll.), 700 pp., (1, 1 ll.), 12 plates; lxiii, 545 pp., (1, 1 ll.), 4 plates; xxviii pp., (1 l.), 762 pp., (1 l.); (5 ll.), 377 pp., (1, 1 ll.); xii pp., (1 l.), 298 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: (Vols. I-II): none; (vol. III-IV): 972-27-0770-1; (vol. V): 972-27-0917-8; (vol. VI): 972-27-0918-6; (vol. VII): 972-27-0951-8; (vols. VIII-IX): none; (vol. X): 972-27-0952-6; (vol. XI): 972-27-1012-5; (vol. XII): 972-27-1013-3; (vol. XIII): 972-27-1014-1; (vol. XIV): 972-27-1015-X; (vol. XV): 972-27-1016-8; (vol. XVI): 972-27-1162-8; (vol. XVII): 972-27-1163-6; (vol. XVIII): 972-27-1190-3; (vol. XIX): 972-27-1191-1; (vol. XX): 972-27-1192-X; (vol. XXI): 972-27-1193-8; (vol. XXII): 972-27-1194-6; (vol. XXIII): none; (vol. XXIV): 972-27-1195-4; (vol. XXV): 972-27-1196-2.

25 vols. $950.00

Conventionally referred to as "Innocêncio", this collection remains the standard, essential bibliography for the study of books by Portuguese and (to a somewhat lesser extent) Brazilian authors, writing in the Portuguese language, whose work was published up to the early twentieth century. The work ranks with those of Brunet, Graesse, Salvá, and Sabin as one of the foremost bibliographies produced during the nineteenth century; its annotations regarding the scholarly and commercial value of the books listed have rarely been surpassed, while a wide range of knowledge is wonderfully displayed. Books by Portuguese authors writing in Spanish, Latin, etc. do not come under the plan of the work; however, many such titles are included. Despite some shortcomings regarding Brazilian authors as we get into the second half of the nineteeth century, Borba de Moraes in Bibliographia Brasiliana (1983), II, 974, wrote that "Innocêncio's work is indispensable for Luso-Brazilian studies." Originally published from 1858 to 1927 (the date of publication for the first edition of the Aditamentos), the valuable Guia bibliográfico first appeared in 1958 in an edition of 500 copies. The first nine volumes were written by Innocéncio Francisco da Silva. Volumes ten through twenty are a continuation of Innocêncio's efforts, based partly on manuscripts he left, by Pedro Venceslau de Brito Aranha, with the collaboration of Joaquim de Araújo in volume seventeen. Volume twenty-one, devoted to Alexandre Herculano, was written by J.J. Gomes de Brito. Volume twenty-two, written by Brito Ananha, was published posthumously and revised by Gomes de Brito and Alvaro Neves. The final three volumes consist of the indispensable Guia Bibliográfico by Ernest Soares, the Aditamentos by Martinho da Fonseca, and the Subsídios para um dicionário de pseudónimos by Martinho da Fonseca, with a preface by Teophilo Braga. The bindings (probably from the period ca. 1987 through 2002, perhaps a few somewhat earlier) and dust jackets (probably from after 1995 to 2002) are uniform. See Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 454; Maria da Graça Pericão in Biblos, IV, 38-40.

 
8. MACHADO, Alvaro Manuel, ed. Dicionário de literatura portuguesa. Lisbon: Presença, 1996. Lge. 8°, publ. prtd. bds. 567 pp., double cols. ISBN: 972-23-2084-X. $60.00

Most useful reference work, covering authors and literary periods from the Middle Ages to the present day. Contemporary authors are emphasized, without sacrificing treatment of earlier ones. Besides the editor, there are 68 contributors, among them Ana Hatherly, Artur Anselmo, Clara Rocha, Fernando Guimarães, Helder Macedo, João Bigotte Chorão, João Medina, Joel Serrão, José-Augusto França, José Augusto Seabra, José V. de Pina Martins, Maria José Palla, Maria Leonor Carvalhão Buescu, Nuno Júdice, Oscar Lopes, Teresa Rita Lopes, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues. While obviously not an absolutely original work, a vast number of the articles manage to display a fresh approach to their subject, synthesizing the latest research. We find this volume of much value in our own work, and keep reference copies handy both in Lisbon and New York.

 
9. OLEIRO, Manuel Bairrão, and Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos, eds. O panorama museológico em Portugal [2000-2003]. Lisbon: Observatório das Actividades Culturais / Ministério da Cultura / Instituto Portugês de Museus, 2005. Folio (29.7 x 17.9 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. 138 pp., maps, tables and graphs in text. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-8488-29-7 (OAC); 972-776-262-X (IPM). $25.00

 
10. RUAS, João, ed. Tesouros da Biblioteca Pública de Evora: bicentenário, 1805-2005. Lisbon: INAPA, 2005. Colecção Tesouros e Arquivos das Bibliotecas Portuguesas. Folio (31.9 x 25.3 cm.), publ. cloth with d.j. 135 pp., profusely and very well illustrated, mostly in color. ISBN: 972-797-108-3. $75.00