Funebres Quexas del dolor, y reparados consuelos del discurso en el fallecimiento de la Serenissisima Reyna la Señora Dona Mariana de Austria, Madre del Serenissimo Rey Catholico Don Carlos II.

Lisbon, En la Emprenta de Manuel Lopes Herrera [sic; i.e., Ferreira], 1696.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, recent period sheep (slightly warped), spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, crimson leather lettering piece in second compartment from head, text-block edges rouged. Woodcut vignette of fruit basket on title page. Woodcut headpiece and large woodcut initial on second leaf recto. Typographical headpieces, smaller woodcut initial, and large woodcut tailpiece at end. Browning. Minor light dampstain. In good condition. Contemporary manuscript foliation. 32 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this poem in octavo rima in memory of D. Mariana de Austria. It is dedicated to Don Manuel de Senmanat y Lanuza, Marques de Castel de Rios, Spanish Ambassador to Portugal. The author was an Augustinian canon at Santa Cruz de Coimbra, about whom little else is known. Innocêncio cites a funeral oration by him for the Portuguese Queen D. Maria Sophia Isabel de Neuburg, celebrated in the Royal Monastery of Odivelas on 19 October 1699, published by Manuel Lopes Ferreira in Lisbon, 1700 (XVII, 199).Maria Ana, or Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) was queen consort of Spain as the second wife of King Philip IV, who was also her maternal uncle. At the death of her husband in 1665, Mariana became queen regent, and she remained an influential figure during the reign of her son Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg.*** Arouca E8 (stating that the printed pagination begins on p. 7; in the present copy, it begins on p. 8). Garcia Perez p. 156. Sousa Viterbo, Literatura hespanhola em Portugal, p. 83 (citing a copy in the Biblioteca da Ajuda). Not in Goldsmith, Short Title Catalogue of Spanish and Portuguese Books 1601-1700 in the Library of the British Museum. Not in HSA. Porbase locates two copies, both in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, one lacking the four leaves of gathering C and otherwise in "mau estado", the other with leaves "perfuradas" and otherwise in "mau estado". Not located in Jisc. Not located in CCPBE. Not located in Rebiun.