Bidspirit auction | BRASONÁRIO da Nobreza de Portugal.

BRASONÁRIO da Nobreza de Portugal. Manuscrito Anónimo do Séc. XVII. Lisboa. 1999. - BRASONÁRIO da Nobreza de Portugal. Manuscrito Anónimo do Séc. XVII . Lisboa: Edições Moreira & Almeida, 1999. XXVI, 822 pp.: il.; 250 mm. First edition of an important, previously unpublished Portuguese armorial, in a limited edition of 700 numbered copies. The manuscript, of anonymous authorship and attributed to the 17th century, records the coats of arms of more than five hundred families of the Portuguese nobility, organized alphabetically, with black and white reproductions of their respective heraldic arms. A key reference source for Portuguese genealogy and noble heraldry, an indispensable resource for researchers of the history of families and the nobility of the Old Regime. Sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate