Continuation of title of v. 1 reads: ... Primera parte, na qual se contem os principios d'esta provincia, no tempo, em que a fundou, & governou o P. M. Simam Rodrigues, com sua sancta vida, & morte.

Continuation of title of v. 2 reads: ... Segunda parte, na qual se comtem as vidas de algũs religiosos mais assinalados, que na mesma provincia entràram, nos annos em que viveo S. Ignacio de Loyola, nosso fundador. Com o summario das vidas dos serenissimos reys Dom Ioàm Terceyro, e Dom Henrique, Fundadores, e insignes bemfeytores desta provincia. Composta pelo P. M. Balthezar Telles, da mesma Companhia, natural da cidade de Lisboa. Em Lisboa. Por Paulo Craesbeeck. Anno M. DC. XLVII.

Several papal bulls at end of v.2.

This work is a classic for the information it gives about the first Jesuits in Brazil, and is very rare. Absolutely complete copies, with the two frontispieces and the supplementary chapter 51, are very rare. (Moraes)

Added engraved title page in each volume reads: Chronica da Companhia de Iesu nos reynos de Portugal.

Each volume has separate pagination, as follows: v.1: [26], 709, [1] p.; v.2: [18], 232, [4], 233-904 p.

Signatures: v.1: pi1 [par.]⁸ 2[par.]-3[par.]² A-2M⁶ 2N⁴ 2O-3E⁶ 3F⁸ 3G-3I⁶ 3K⁸ (-3K7) 3L-3N⁶ (E2 and 2D1 missigned D2 and 2C, respectively; pi1, [par.]1, T2, 2N4, 3F8 and 3N6 versos blank); v.2: pi1 [par.]-2[par.]⁴ A-T⁶ V⁸ X-3T⁶ 3V⁴ 3X-3Z⁶ ²3A-²3D⁶ 4E⁴ 4F-4G⁶ (V3, V5 and V6 missigned V2¹/₂, V3 and V4) (pi1, [par.]1, [par.]4, X6, 3V4, 3Z2 and 4E4 versos b.

Page 673, v.1 misnumbered 674.

This rare copy has pages 232 and 233 repeated.

Errata statements in v. 1, p. 709, and in v. 2, p. 904.

Includes indexes.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana, p.852.

Barbosa Machado, I, p.458.

Azevedo e Samodães 3337.

Silva, I.F. da. Diccionario bib. portuguez, I, p.328.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

John Carter Brown Library copy has manuscript annotations. This copy has some stains.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.