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Title

Maximas discretas sobre a reforma necessaria da agricultura, commercio, milicia, marinha, tribunaes, e fabricas, &c. de Portugal

Authors

• Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749

Other related names

• Joseph, King of Portugal, 1714-1777, recipient
• Cardozo, Adolpho Soares, former owner
• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1616
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5009541
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5009541

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Portuguese, with occasional words in Latin and French

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799?

Place

Portugal?

Summary

Advice about reform in Portugal, including concerns about the Inquisition, addressed to Prince Joseph, who took an active role in ruling Portugal after his father, King John V, suffered a stroke in 1742.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r); later published under the title Testamento político.
   

Extent

47 leaves : 203 x 155 (178 x 130) mm. bound to 207 x 165 mm

Collation

Paper, 47; 1⁷ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸; [1-47], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) mottled calf; gilt florets and letters C.M. on spine; paper label with blue border and number 1915 in ink on spine.

Layout

Written in 24 long lines.

Decoration

Double-ruled border on title page (f. 1r).

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Adolpho Soares Cardozo (Porto, Portugal; stamp on title page, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; label inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r).
   
• Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 44.
   

Subjects topical

• Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800
• Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Polemics
• Manuscripts, Portuguese--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner stamp, f. 1r