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4°, nineteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards (worn at corners, small defect near foot of spine), smooth spine gilt, contrasting leather lettering piece, gilt letter. Woodcut of St. Anthony on title-page. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. Minor stains and small hole in blank portion of title page, some dampstains toward end. In good to very good condition. Initials "A.B.S." stamped in gilt at foot of spine. 153 [i.e., 151, with pp. 145-6 skipped in numbering] pp., lacking the final 4 ll. of index, as is often the case. *** FIRST EDITION of the statutes of the Portuguese church and hospital of Saint Anthony at Rome, which was founded in 1440 by D. Antão Martins de Chaves, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto (under the aegis of the Portuguese church in Rome) for the care of resident nationals and pilgrims.Set out here are the administration, daily operation, staffing, finances and admission standards of the hospital. The Estatutos also specify the legal obligations and liabilities of the institution, wages, penalties for various employee abuses and the duties of the physicians, pharmacist, archivist, accountant, nurses, barber-surgeons and cook (with the kitchen's opening and closing times). Pages 54-8 contain a chapter on "Couzas pertencentes á hospidalidade e enfermeria." Book III (pp. 129-51) deals exclusively with the hospital, giving detailed information on its administration. The church, built by Martino Lunghi, was completed in 1652. A second edition appeared in Rome, 1863; a third was published in the same city in 1872.*** Krivatsy 6127. National Library of Medicine, Seventeenth-Century STC p. 623: calling for 153 pp. Bibl. del Senato, Catalogo . di statuti VI: 264-5. Innocêncio IX, 190. Wellcome IV, 553. Not in Lisbon, Faculdade de Medicina, Catálogo da colecção portuguesa. Not in Pires de Lima, Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto. Fernandes Thomáz 1850 (without the index) and 1851 (with the index). Pinto de Mattos (1970) p. 260. Monteverde 2206: calling for only 153 pp. No Roman imprints in the Portuguese language are listed in Thomas, Goldsmith, Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum, or Penny (1938). Porbase locates three copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo. Jisc repeats Wellcome Library and British Library. Seller Inventory # 21305
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