Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PORTUGUESE INQUISITION.) Bento de Santo Tomás, Frei. Sermão do Acto da Fee celebrado em Coimbra, na Quarta Dominga da Quaresma, Doze do Março de 1673. [4], 26, [2] pages, including final blank. 4to, later wrappers; upper margins trimmed without text loss. Coimbra: Manoel Dias, 1673

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scarce first edition of a sermon on the errors of Judaism addressed to convicted Judaizers (and by extension to all Jews) at an auto da fé. "Inquisitorial sermons constitute a bitter and often brutal attack against Lusitanian Jewry on several fronts: religious, social, racial, and national. Their vehemence is such that it is difficult to take seriously the professed aim of bringing back their estranged brethren to the fold of the Church"--Glaser, "Invitation to Intolerance," Hebrew Union College Annual 27 (1956), page 237. See also his "Portuguese Sermons at Autos-da-Fé: An Introduction and Bibliography," Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 2:2 (1955), page 69.