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Chronica da Companhia de Iesu, na provincia de Portugal; : e do que fizeram, nas conquistas d'este reyno, os religiosos, que na mesma provincia entràram, nos annos em que viveo S. Ignacio de Loyola, nosso fundador.

Telles, Balthazar, 1596-1675 · 1645 · Em Lisboa. : Por Paulo Craesbeeck. · 6 pictures

A 1645 Jesuit chronicle printed in Lisbon by Paulo Craesbeeck, written by Balthazar Telles on the Society of Jesus in Portugal and its overseas missions, aimed at a religious and scholarly readership. Its pictures are small letterpress woodcut ornaments, such as flower vases, a grotesque mask panel and a cherub cartouche with the IHS monogram, showing dense foliage, scrolls and putti that a designer could borrow for decorative borders, headpieces and tailpieces.

Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556 · Rodrigues, Simão, d. 1579 · John III, King of Portugal, 1502-1557 · Henrique, King of Portugal, 1512-1580 · Jesuits · CPJCB · Bulls, Papal · Imprint 1645 · Imprint 1647

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