RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 58

September 2007


PART I:
Bibliography, Books about Books, Dictionaries,
General Reference


See also items 25, 56, 84, 87, 158 & 161.

1.
COSTA, Aleixo Manuel da. Dicionário de literatura goesa. 3 vols. Macau: Instituto Cultural / Fundação Oriente , n.d. (1996?). Lge. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 440; 370; 363 pp. ISBN: (the complete collection): 972–35–0228–3; (ICN): vol. I: 972–35–0248–8; vol. II: 972–35–0249–6; vol. III: 972–35–0250–X / (FO): vol. I: 972–9440–63–8; vol. II: 972–9440–64–6; vol. III: 972–9440–65–4. 3 vols. $125.00

This major contribution to the bibliography of Portuguese Goa, complete in 3 nicely printed volumes, lists works published by Goan authors from 1702 to 1950, with a biography of each author, list of his works giving format and collation (and occasionally excerpts), and bibliography of books about him. Anonymous works are listed by title.


2. COUTO, Jorge, Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho, Mário Soares, et al. A.H. de Oliveira Marques, 1933–2007: 50 anos de historiador. Exposição bibliográfica: 21 de Junho a 14 de Setembro de 2007. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 211, (1) pp., (2 ll.), index of names, illus. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 978-972-565-418-8. $25.00

In addition to the authors mentioned above, this volume contains texts by Hipólito de la Torre Gómez, A.H. de Oliveira Marques, and Ernest Reisen. The bibliography occupies pp. 59-198.


3. Dicionário da literatura medieval galega e portuguesa. Organização e coordenação de Giulia Lanciani e Giuseppe Tavani. Lisbon: Caminho, 1993. Lge. 8° (25.3 x 18.2 cm.), publ. gilt-stamped buckram with d.j. 698 pp., illus. in text, 10 ll. color plates (with 15 full–page illus.). ISBN: 972-21-0871-9. $95.00

This important reference work is the effort of 84 collaborators including Arthur L.–F. Askins, Vicente Beltran, Luís Cabral, Ivo Castro, Maria Isabel Cid, José Manuel Díaz Bustamante, Manuel Díaz y Díaz, Raul Miguel Rosado Fernandes, Luís Adão da Fonseca, Elsa Gonçalves, Luís Krus, Ramon Lorenzo, José Mattoso, Paulo Meneses, Vincenzo Minervini, Augusto Aires Nascimento, António Resende de Oliveira, Américo da Costa Ramalho, André Crabbé Rocha, and Manuel Simões. There are said to be entries for all the Galego–Portuguese poets (most from the Cancioneiro de Resende), all authors of known literary texts, all anonymous works, all genres of poetry, the literary movements in Galicia and Portugal during the Middle Ages, the most notable technical aspects of poetry, cultural institutions, and such subjects as "Bilinguismo / plurilinguismo na poesia lírica," "Cartografia medieval," "Circulação do livro manuscrito," "Iconografia e ilustração," "Impossibilia," "Influências e intertextualidade," "Lexicografia," "Livro," "Manuscritos," "Tipografia," etc.


4. FERREIRA, Damião Vellozo. Uma camiliana portuense de Damião Vellozo Ferreira: obras, manuscritos e objectos. Preface by D. Gonçalo de Vasconcelos e Sousa. Porto: Ipanema Park Hotel, 1995. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. (1 l.), 59 pp., color illus. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. ISBN: none. $100.00
Describes 286 books and pamphlets, 10 manuscripts, and 12 objects which had belonged to Camilo Castelo Branco, from the collection of the distinguished Porto attorney, collector, author and antiquary.

5. FURTADO, José Afonso. O que é O Livro? Lisbon: Difusão Cultural, 1995. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 174 pp., endnotes. ISBN: 972-709-253-5. $24.00


6. SIMÕES, Guilherme Augusto. Dicionário de expressões populares portugueses: arcaísmos, regionalismos, calão e gíria, ditos, frases feitas, lugares–comuns, aportuguesamentos, estrangeirismos e curiosidades da linguagem. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1994. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 700 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1094-8. $90.00


7. VERDELHO, Telmo, and João Paulo Silvestre, eds. Dicionarística portuguesa: inventariação e estudo do patrimómio lexicográfico. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 215 pp., illus., extensive footnotes, bibliographies. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-789-234-1. $40.00