Mafra sacra: memória & património, 1717-2017. D. Tiago Henriques, ed.Colecção Mafra Sacra.
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Sintra, Zéfiro / Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento da Paróquia de Santo André de Mafra, 2017.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (30 x 24 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 461 pp., 1 l. colophon, profusely illustrated in color, tables, facsimile of documents and musical scores, endnotes, bibliography. Text in red and black throughout. One of 1000 copies. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. An impressive collection of texts and richly colored illustrations on the Real Convento de Mafra in honor of its third centenary. Historical photographs are reproduced in addition to stunning photographs of the interior of the Real Convento de Mafra. Dom Manuel Clemente, Cardinal-Patriarch of Lisbon, writes a preface to the volume. The work is then divided into four parts: I. Da Real Obra, on the construction of the Real Convento de Mafra, with entries on the history of the architecture and D. João V (o magnânimo), for example João Vaz writes on the six Baroque organs in the Basílica de Mafra (pp. 107-123); II. A Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento de Mafra, where André Varela Remígio writes on the conservation and restoration of objects at the Irmandade, including a detailed invoice of costs from 1839 (pp. 263-283); III. A Real e Venerável Ordem Terceira da Penitência de S. Francisco de Mafra, where Duarte Nuno Chaves has written about historical processions made on the 4th Sunday of Lent by the Third Order of S. Francis in Mafra (pp. 305-325); IV. Celebrações e Expressões de Piedade, includes a text by Dom Filipe Folque de Mendoça on the baptism of the Infanta Dona Ana de Jesus Maria (pp. 355-367). ***
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- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- Mafra sacra: memória & património, 1717-2017. D. Tiago Henriques, ed.Colecção Mafra Sacra.
- Book Condition
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- FIRST and ONLY EDITION
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- Sintra, Zéfiro / Real e Venerável Irmandade do Santíssimo Sacramento da Paróquia de Santo André de Mafra, 2017.
- Keywords
- Mafra, convento de Mafra, history, art, art history, music history, art conservation, religion, Catholic Church, Portugal
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