Triumpho do amor divino, e extracto das festas, que na cidade de Braga consagrou ao SS. Sacramento o Illustrissimo, e Excellentissimo Senhor D. Rodrigo de Moura Telles, Arcebispo, & Senhor de Braga, Primàs das Hespanhas ....

Lisbon, Na Officina Real Deslandesiana, 1714.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, modern marbled wrappers. Woodcut vignette on title page (IHS monogram). Woodcut headpiece and initial on p. 3. Typographical headpieces and tailpieces. Woodcut tailpieces on pp. 40, 76. Very minor stains to title page and last few leaves, otherwise clean and crisp. Overall in very good condition. Old manuscript foliation ("53-90"). 76 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION, rare, of the author's first published work. It gives a detailed description of the lavish festivities held at Braga to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi in late May, 1714, when the inflow of gold from Minas Gerais was being felt in Portugal. On pages 6-37, the account gives extensive details of the elaborate and costly decorations of the Cathedral of Braga and its Capella do Senhor, and the display of the monstrance that held the Sacrament. Treated at great length are the processions over the next few days, which included a dança das Siganas (dance of the gypsies), an effigy of St. Francis Xavier, a bayle dos Tartaros (dance of the Tartars), and at least seven ornate floats. Pages 38-40 list dozens of participants. Pages 41-76 offer a 105-stanza poem in octaves, describing the festivities, in "requintado gongorismo" according to Innocêncio: "Triumpho do amor nas festas que ao S. Sacramento consagrou o Illustriss. e Excell. Senhor Arcebispo primas, D. Rodrigo de Moura Telles." D. Rodrigo de Moura Teles (1644-1728), who presided over the festivities, was named archbishop of Braga in 1704. The extended title refers to him as "Primàs das Hespanhas", calling attention to the archbishop of Braga's claim to primacy over the Church of the entire Iberian Peninsula.Borges Pacheco (1658-1735) was born into a noble family in Braga, where he obtained a degree in canon law and served as a magistrate. He appears to have had published only two other works, Memorial ao Sanctissimo Sacramenr para visitar o Lausperenne, Braga, 1725, and Espelho de um peccador, in 2 parts, Lisbon: na Offic. Augustiana, 1732.*** Innocêncio II, 150 (without collation); IX, 121 (collation agrees with that of the present copy): "O sr. Pereira Caldas ... diz em carta de Julho 1867 ser a obra tão rara, que em todos os livros dos vinte conventos, de que se formou a Bibl. Bracharense, não appareceu d'ella um unico exemplar! Em Lisboa tambem não sei que apparecesse até agora algum á venda." Barbosa Machado I, 639. Not in sixteen of the most important Portuguese auction catalogues of the Nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Gubian, Souza Guimarães, Castelo Melhor, Mendes Leal and Figanière, Nepomuceno, Fernandes Thomaz, Moreira Cabral, Azambuja, Rodrigo Velloso, Monteverde, Azevedo-Samodães, Ameal, Conde de Sucena, Avila-Perez, Sousa da Camara, or Afonso Lucas. Porbase (giving the collation as only 40 pp., without any plate) locates six copies: four in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and two in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (one cited in the Torre do Tombo appears to have been transferred to the Biblioteca Nacional). Not located in Jisc. Not located in NUC.