RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 65

February 2009

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


See also items 29, 49, 51, 93, 111, 143, 150, 151 & 152.
1. Annualia Verbo: temas, factos, figuras, 2007/2008. Lisbon: Verbo, 2007. Lge. 8° (26 x 18 cm.), publ. gilt- and white-stamped buckram with dust jacket. 724 pp., much color illus. ISBN: 978-972-22-2722-3. $150.00
Third 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 Adriano Moreira, Tomaz Rebelo do Espírito Santo, António Manuel Couto Viana, José-Augusto França, Eugénio Lisboa, Duarte Ivo Cruz, Manuel Braga da Cruz, Fernando J.B. Martinho, João Bigotte Chorão, Aires A. Nascimento, Daniel Serrão, Fernando Guimarães, and Jorge Calaço. The volume was directed by Fernando Guedes and coordinated by Jorge Colaço.


2. Annualia Verbo: temas, factos, figuras, 2008/2009. Lisbon: Verbo, 2008. Lge. 8° (26 x 18 cm.), publ. gilt- and white-stamped buckram with dust jacket. 678 pp., much color illus. ISBN: 978-972-22-2843-5. $150.00
Fourth 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 Aires A. Nascimento, Arnaldo do Espírito Santo, António Leite da Costa, Isabel Ponce de Leão, José-Augusto França, António Manuel Couto Viana, and Jorge Colaço. The volume was directed by Fernando Guedes and coordinated by Jorge Colaço.


3. BARBOSA MACHADO, Diogo. Bibliotheca lusitana. 4 vols. Coimbra: Atlântida, 1965. Folio (27.5 x 19.3 cm.), orig. prtd. wrps. (40 ll.), port., 767 pp., (1 l.); (4 ll.), 926 pp., (2 ll.); (2 ll.), 798 pp., (2 ll.); (4 ll.), 721 pp., (3 ll.). An uncut, unopened set. Some soiling and foxing to the wrappers, but in near fine condition overall; very fine internally. ISBN: none. 4 vols. $400.00
Facsimile reprint of the original 1741-59 edition. The author was "incontestably the greatest Portuguese bibliographer. His Bibliotheca lusitana forms the basis of all Portuguese bibliography . . . The confidence with which he wrote and the exactitude of the biographical facts make these four folios an indispensable reference work even today" (Borba de Moraes [1983] II, 969). Because it covers Portuguese authors writing in Portuguese or any other language, the Bibliotheca lusitana is not superseded by Innocêncio, who deals mainly with works in Portuguese. See Breslauer and Folter 100.


4. MARTINS, Fernando Cabral, ed. Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do modernismo português. Lisbon: Caminho, 2008. Very lge. thick 8º, publ. gilt-stamped buckram with d.j. 959 pp., 4 ll. color plates, printed on both sides, illus. in text, bibliography, index of names. ISBN: 978-972-21-1985-6. $125.00


5. MARTINS, José Vitorino de Pina. Exposição bibliográfica do seminário internacional Europa e Cultura: Alguns livros fundadores da cultura europeia. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1998. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207, (1) pp., many illus., including 2 in color. ISBN: 972–97748–1–1. $35.00
Exhibition which included 69 titles, mostly from the sixteenth century, with a few incunabula, seventeenth– and eighteenth–century works, chosen from the collections of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa and the Biblioteca dos Estudos Humanísticos de Lisboa. In addition to several significant early editions of classical authors, some of the authors include Ariosto, Aires Barbosa, Pietro Bembo, Boccaccio, Camões, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Castiglione, Pedro Ciruelo, Copernicus, Dante, Augustino Dato, Descartes, Dürer, Erasmus, Marsilio Ficino, Galileo, Damião de Góis, Frei Luís de Granada, Kepler, Paolo Manuzio, Juan de Mariana, Montaigne, Thomas More, Newton, Pedro Nunes, Jerónimo Osório, Pascal, Petrarch, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Marco Polo, Francisco Sanchez de las Brozas, Savonarola, Diogo de Teive, Lorenzo Valla, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Luís Vives. Among publishers and printers included are Badius Ascensius, Simon de Colines, Jacobo Cromberger, François Estienne, Henri Estienne, Robert Estienne, Joannes Froben, Germão Galharde, Bernardo Giunta, Philippo de Giunta, António Gonçalves, Manuel de Lyra, Aldo Manuzio, Paolo Manuzio, Francisco Martinez, Jean Petit, Cristophor Plantin, António Ribeiro, Juan Varela de Salamanca, Melchior Sessa, and Elieser Toledano. Pina Martins selected the books and wrote an introductory essay, "Alguns livros funadores da cultura europeia, 1484–1726" [pp. 9–25], as well as providing the cataloging and bibliographical notes.


6. MARTINS, José Vitorino de Pina. Livros do século XVI impressos em Espanha da Biblioteca de Estudos Humanísticos de Lisboa. Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro Cultural, 1999. Offprint of vol. XXXVIII of Archivos do Centro Cultural Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris. Folio (29.7 x 21.5 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 68 pp., (1 l.), illus. One of 33 copies numbered 1 through 33, with a statement of limitation tipped in, signed by the author. There are said to been a total of 85 copies in all: another 33 copies numbered I through XXXIII, and 21 copies lettered A through X, both runs also with signed limitation statements tipped in. To our knowledge, there is no substantive difference between these three runs. ISBN: none. $50.00
Describes 25 books printed in Spain, including a Bíblia complutense (lacking 1 volume).


7. PIRES, Daniel, and Júlia Ordorica. Espólio de Camilo Pessanha: [Esp. N1], inventário. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2008. Colecção Bibliografias / Inventários. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 143 pp., footnotes, illus. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-565-427-9. $30.00
Includes a facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript of Clepsidra. Daniel Pires has supplied an introduction (pp. 9-12), and a chronology of the life and work of Camilo Pessanha (pp. 83-143). Júlia Ordorica has provided the catalogue of the inventory of the Espólio of Camilo Pessanha (pp. 13-82).


8. RAFAEL, Gina Guedes, and Manuela Santos, eds. Jornais e revistas portugueses do séc. XIX. Volume I. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1998. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 478, (1) pp. One of 500 copies. ISBN: 972–565–229–0. Volume I. $45.00
This initial volume describes 2,882 titles, giving dates of publication, number of issues, and call number or call numbers for the copy or copies in the Biblioteca Nacional. Organized alphabetically, this volume ends with "Isto".


9. RAFAEL, Gina Guedes, and Manuela Santos, eds. Jornais e revistas portugueses do séc. XIX. Volume II. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 2002. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 427 pp., (1 l.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972–565–314–9. Volume II. $45.00
This volume concluded a huge project underway since 1995. It describes 2,428 titles, giving dates of publication, number of issues, and call number or numbers for the copy or copies in the Biblioteca Nacional. Organized alphabetically, the volume begins (after two entries seemingly out of order) with the letter "J", ending with "Zumbidos" (followed by an addenda with 4 entries). Pages 355 to 427 consist of a number of useful indexes.


10. VAZA, Aldina C.F. Rocha da, and Emília Maria Marçal Amor. Dicionário Verbo: língua portuguesa. 2nd ed., revised. Lisbon: Verbo, 2008. Lge. 8°, publ. bds. xix, 1310 pp., (1 l.), Main text printed in blue and black throughout. ISBN: 978-972-22-2571-7. $90.00
First published 2006. This dictionary was produced with the assistance of the Portuguese Ministry of Education. It conforms to the Novo Acordo Ortográfico and the most recent trends of the Ministry of Education, especially with respect to the teaching and learning of Portuguese and linguistic terminology for elementary and secondary school studies.




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