Bidspirit auction | Ley sobre o pam qu

Ley sobre o pam qu se vende fiado. - JOÃO III, King of Portugal. Law on bread sold on credit, and on loans to be repaid in bread. Lisbon: at the house of Germão Galharde, 20 March 1539. Bifolium (4 pp.); 290 mm tall. Single-column printing in gothic type; large woodcut initial at opening; unpaginated. Old marginal water-staining and light toning; a clean, sharp copy. Royal ordinance aimed at curbing speculation in the bread supply: it regulates sales made on credit, fixes deadlines, and forbids loan contracts to be repaid “in bread” with advantage to the lender (repayment in greater quantity or by exploiting future price rises), together with related practices of usury and price manipulation. Orders public proclamation and universal enforcement on pain of fines and other penalties. Printed in Lisbon by Germão Galharde , the crown’s leading printer in the mid-sixteenth century—an illustrative document of João III’s cereal-market controls.