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MORAIS (Cristovão Alão de). PEDATURA Lusitana: (Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal). Porto. 1943. - MORAIS (Cristovão Alão de) PEDATURA Lusitana: (Nobiliário de Famílias de Portugal) . Publicado por Alexandre António Pereira de Miranda Vasconcelos, António Augusto Ferreira da Cruz e Eugénio Eduardo Andréa da Cunha e Freitas. Porto: Livraria Fernando Machado, 1943. 12 v.; 250 mm. First printed edition of the Pedatura Lusitana (Nobility of Portuguese Families), a celebrated 17th-century genealogical manuscript belonging to the collection of the Porto Municipal Public Library, published in a diplomatic edition, with critical notes and clarifications, by Alexandre António Pereira de Miranda Vasconcelos, António Augusto Ferreira da Cruz and Eugénio Eduardo Andréa da Cunha e Freitas. The title derives from the Greek pais , paidós (”son”), with ”pedatura” being an elegant way of designating the treatise on filiations and genealogies. Written without the aristocratic fantasies common to contemporary genealogists and enriched with personal references, the work is an indispensable source for the study of families and the private history of the Entre Vouga e Minho region. It was the first time that a diplomatic edition of a genealogical manuscript accompanied by the corresponding critical apparatus was attempted in Portugal; a handwritten copy of the text, with a copyist's reading error, became incorrectly known as ”Sedatura Lusitana”. Highly regarded by researchers of genealogy and the history of Portuguese families. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate