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FREIRE (Anselmo Braamcamp). BRASÕES da Sala de Sintra. Coimbra. 1921. - FREIRE (Anselmo Braamcamp) BRASÕES da Sala de Sintra . 2.ª edição. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1921. 3 v.: il.; 295 mm. Second edition, published in Coimbra between 1921 and 1930, in three volumes, and expanded upon the first (Lisbon, 1899, 1901 and 1905). The third volume, from 1930, contains the index of the first two. A study of the families and coats of arms depicted on the ceiling of the Coats of Arms Room in the Sintra Palace, where King Manuel I commissioned the painting of the coats of arms of the king, eight princes, and seventy-two noble families of the kingdom. For each family, it presents the genealogy and ancestral trees, a description of the coat of arms, and biographies of the most illustrious personalities, with the coats of arms reproduced outside the text. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate