Euphrosyne

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This article has as main objective to analyze the meanings of cult statues in ancient Greece. Recent studies of visual culture in Greek art have tried to redefine the limits, actions and contexts of cult images in relation to Greek religiosity. Specifically, we will focus on analyzing the physical interaction of cult images in the ritual process of Greek religion.The main case study will be the Athenian festival of Plynteria. From the written testimonies ofthe Greek and Roman sources, we will how cult images were exposed to various processes of beautification, adornment, and physical manipulation at different times of religious worship.

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The fishing industry was the main source of livelihood for many populations living near the Strait of Gibraltar from the VI-V century BC onwards, as testified by archeo-logical and literary sources. At the Phoenician colony of Gadir, and allied settlements, coins were struck with the image of the tuna fish on one side and the god Melqart, protector of the Western Phoenicians, on the other. In this article, we propose that this relationship between the Phoenician god and tuna fish could have been the subject of a local myth, adapted from a Semitic cosmogonic myth into a fishing myth and located in the geographical landscape of the West. We analyze its potential traces in ritual, iconography, and Greco-Roman texts dealing with the exploits of Heracles and other seafarers in the West, which are suspect of having been subject to various forms of Euhemerism and syncretism, without obliterating all traces of the previous mythology.

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In the New Testament Vulgate, the Greek verb μισέω (“to hate”) is translated either as the Latin verb odi, or as the constructions with support verb odio habeo and odio sum. In order to understand the criteria that explain these three translations, we will analyze, from a diachronic perspective, the use of odio habeo and odio sum in the Latin literature from Plautus to Gellius. We will also discuss, in a synchronic view, their survival in late Latin, with special attention to the different translations of μισέω in the Vulgate and in the previous versions of the Vetus Latina. The semantic and syntactic differences between odio habeo and odio sum, on the one hand, and between these two collocations and the verb odi, on the other, constitute other purpose of this paper: whereas odio sum is the lexical expression of the passive of odi, odio habeo shares contexts with odi, but in complementary distribution.

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The main purpose of this research is to show the similarities and differences between the comparisons of Gunthamund, Telamon and an anonymous uir fortis with lions in Dracontius’ poems and the similes related with them within the precedent literary tradition. Once established that the presence of certain quotes from Latin classical literature in this African poet’s texts is mediated by the previous appropriation of those same lines by other Christian authors in their works, we will examine the relationship between the sense implicit in the three similes proposed by Dracontius and their different narrative contexts.

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In 409/411 began the process that would change Gallaecia into the Germanic kingdom of the Sueves. After a series of challenges, mainly from Vandals and Visigoths, they established themselves as the sole rulers of Gallaecia until their defeat in 585 at the hands of the Visigothic Arian, King Leovigild. Within this milieu the Church gradually led the Sueves out of paganism and Arianism to the Catholic faith notably under St. Martin of Braga in the sixth century. In 589 Hispania underwent a significant change when King Reccared at the Third Council of Toledo abjured Arianism thus making all of Hispania Catholic. To understand how the Gallaecian Church led by the bishops of Dumium/ Braga fared under the Visigothic rulers of Toledo we will consider the ecclesial-political background up to 585/589. The study will close with the Third Council of Braga (675) and the many councils that met in Hispania to assess the place and role of all the bishops from Gallaecia.

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A New Manuscript of the Vita vel Passio sancti Pelagii from the Portugal National Library.

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This article deals with the study of the early printed tradition of Martial and it is focused on the partial edition of the Epigrammata made in the printing house of Juan de Burgos in 1490, preserved in a single copy (Évora, BPE Inc. 299). It constitutes the first printed testimony of the work of Marcial in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the few incunable editions of this author made outside Italy. The analysis of Martialis’ Italian printed tradition between 1470 and 1490 leads to identify two groups of editions that are more common in this period: one linked to the edition of Merula (Venice, c. 1472), and the other derived from the edition of Calderini (Venice,bishop/bishop/ 1480). The collation of the Burgos printing with these editions allows to conclude that the Burgos edition depends on the group of editions of Calderini, and, more specifically, on the Venetian edition printed by Thomas de Blavis in 1482, which constitutes the model on which the Burgos edition has been based.

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This paper presents a philological analysis of the only early edition of Terence’s plays printed in the Iberian Peninsula: the incunable of Comoediae Terentii, and of the commentaries of Donatus and Calfurnio (on Heaut.), printed in Barcelona in 1498 by the printer Johann Rosenbach. The paper sets the edition in its cultural context and examines its relationship with other incunabula of Terence’s plays; it establishes close connections with a specific group of these. The collation lets us conclude that Rosenbach’s edition took as its model the edition printed in 1495 in Venice by Simon Bevilaqua.

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Recent seismic catalogues include a surprisingly high number of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Iberian Peninsula during antiquity. The Monarchia Lusytana (1597-1609) by the Portuguese historian Bernardo de Brito is identified in this essay as the primary source for the catastrophic events dated between the Second Punic War and late antiquity in those catalogues. Brito includes catastrophic episodes in 216 BC, 63 BC, 55 BC, 47 BC, 33 CE and c. 365 CE. Greek and Roman references for some of these catastrophic events are revised, the role played by spurious sources, such as Laimundo Ortega and Pedro Aladio, is addressed, and the purpose and function of these cataclysms within the Monarchia Lusytana is discussed.

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In this contribution, I show how the study and practice of mathematics in Portugal in the 17^th and 18^th centuries was framed within the development of the SJ mission of the “padroado”, especially in that of China; visibly also books and personal curricula were involved in it. In the 17^th cent., mainly “foreign” Jesuits - but not exclusively - were involved in it (Indipetae, in Coimbra, Lisbon, etc.), side by side with Portuguese personalities (Cassão, Francisco Pereira, e.g.); since the end of the 17^th century, with Tyrsus Gonzalez’ intervention and a successive reorganization of mathematical instruction in Lisbon, etc., Portuguese involvement augmented significantly, as a prosopographical list proves it, even if not all of them were appreciated by their European colleagues in China.

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In The Suppliant Women, the Argive men, who once attacked Thebes, rest on that land for some time, while their mothers and children ask for the restitution of the bodies before Theseus. We introduce the study of the expressions of violence from the view point of the catastrophes - punctual fact - and of the calamities - prolonged suffering, to finally, reach the conclusions.

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This paper is aimed to showing how in Acharnians the bellicose Lamachus is marked as a grotesque parody of the noble Homeric models. This aspect involves the temathic level concerning food as well.

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The Cipus episode must be understood in literary terms as a mythologiza-tion of Julius Caesar previous to his apotheosis, just as the Aesculapius episode constitutes a mythologization of Augustus. The purpose is to allude in a mythologized way to two episodes of Caesar’s political life: the rejection of the royal emblems first from the Senate and then from Antonius in the Lupercalia (Suet. Iul. 79.2). But, although the most central aspect of this representation of history is the device per se, it is possible to see also a reflection on monarchy in the history of Rome, which functions as a significant interpretation of the recent history: the monarchic legacy, which evokes not only Tarquinus but also Numa, should not be understood as a mistake and Cipus and Caesar, unlike Augustus, failed to assume it, even though Ovidian (Numan) conception of monarchy is problematically applied to Augustus.

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The Egyptian goddess Isis is described by written sources as a powerful deity whose scope encompassed many of the most important areas of human beliefs. The image of the deity was a vehicle for transmission of the same religious messages included in religious texts. In this sense, it is of particular interest the description of the goddess appearing to Lucius in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius. The purpose of this work is to deepen the symbolism that conveys one of the most significant elements of the Isiac description, her celestial cloak, through information provided by Egyptian and Graeco-Latin sources.

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Müller’s brand-new commentary on the grand finale of Juvencus’ trail-blazing versification of the Gospels argues that scelerata should be emended at 4.595 and 4.643. The present note adduces evidence to show that in both of these passages the paradosis is sound.

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In this paper, I argue that the structure of Claudian’s mythological poemDe raptu Proserpinae is more closely integrated than it is generally considered to be in most of the relevant literature. I have taken a number of situational and verbal parallels intoconsideration, which are found in the epic’s verses. In my opinion, these parallels connect some important passages together. Firstly, I direct my attention to passages which show a correlation between the feelings, physical symptoms and gestures of the mother, the goddess Ceres, and her daughter Proserpine (1.190-191, 1.265-266 and 2.248-249, 3.425-426, 3.149-150). Next, I draw a comparison between the mother’s soliloquy (3.420-427) and Proserpine’s monologue (3.97-106). These two episodes are linked together by several verbal parallels and constitute a quasi-dialogue (the daughter’s reproaches and the mother’s answer). Besides this, in the text there are a number of additional verbal parallels which indicate a correspondence between some sentences and episodes, and these are useful in that they attract our attention to the irony intended by the poet.

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This contribution discusses the “metagrammatical” exposition at the outset of book 2 of Julian of Toledo’s Ars grammatica, which presents a number of interpretive diffi-culties. In the exposition at issue, Julian deals with what he calls the two partes grammaticae, partly on the basis of a passage in Pompeius’ commentary on Donatus. The exposition provides valuable information on the pedagogical context in which Julian’s grammar was conceived and used, and bears further testimony to the growing and eventually predominant authority of Donatus in the late antique and early medieval pedagogy of Latin grammar

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The main purpose of this paper is to figure out if the Liber Esculapii was copied as a direct source by the compiler of Tereoperica or if both treatises present non related but similar content. We present a comparative analyze of certain relevant passages with very similar content; we also compare them with other works with analogous content.

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The Commentarii Familiares by Jodocus Badius Ascensius retain quite a traditional disposition. At first, they were completed to support the teaching of the Latin language, and after, before being printing-pressed, they were renewed with the explanations of alienexegesis. This renovation makes his explanations show unique characteristics, to the point that sometimes even the reprinting of his explanations to a same work do not allow them to be qualified as reedition. Nevertheless the obvious traditional disposition possessed by the Commentarii Familiares is consistent with that retained by the French poetry at least up to the second half of the sixteenth century.

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Ercole Strozzi’s Carminum liber unites 9 odes: 8 religious poems according to the Christian liturgical calendar (mixing temporal and sanctoral), from the Annunciation to Whitsun to finish with a praise of the Virgin of the Seven Joys, and, in the end, a profane ode directly inspired by Horatius. His religious lyricism takes roots in the Christian latin hymnody (Ambrosius, Prudentius), but doesn’t forget the lyric tradition of Horatius: Ercole Strozzi searches an original way between this two traditions.

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The Portuguese doctor Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568) published his seven Curationum medicinalium centuriae between 1551 and 1566. The clinical cases are usuallyfollowed by some scholia in which different subjects related to the case are theoreticallydiscussed. In the curatio 28 of the first Centuria Amatus writes a long scholium to talk about an issue frequently debated from Antiquity: the suitability of providing aqueous wine during fever episodes. The paper, in any case, aims to carry out a deep analysis of Amatus’ literary method and to pay special attention to his way of building the text by citing ancient sources (Corpus Hippocraticum, Aristotle, Galenus, Aetius) and using contemporary authors (Manardus, Musa Brassavola, Mondella) in a tacit and more or less dissimulated way.

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In 1561, Jan Telgius wrote in Colonia an introductory handbook to learnrhetoric titled Progymnasmata Rhetorica. The main source - though not the only one - for this text is Rhetorica ad Herennium, of which Telgius’ book is actually an epitome. In addition, as Telgius himself acknowledges, almost all the precepts in his progymnasmata are illustrated by fere Ciceronianis examples. The objective of this paper is: (a) to present an analysis of the sources used in the theoretical part and examples the book comprises; and (b) to present a typology of these ones.

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The paper focuses on the extant manuscript work of friar Alonso de laVeracruz (1507-1584), an important Spanish-Mexican author. Once an introduction to his life and production is made, attention is paid to the origins of his work Compendium privilegiorum that remained a manuscript because of the reasons expounded in the paper itself. Then the two manuscripts of the work are established and studied for the first time. Different references to a manuscript lacked elucidation on how many manuscripts existed; the only available manuscript had not been studied; and the finding of a second one, which was given to me for study, made me see that an individual study of them, as well as the subsequent collation of both texts was needed.

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In 1652, a time when several ancient sources and comments on Poetics were disputed, Pierre Mambrun wrote an essay, Dissertatio de epico carmine, expounding literarycriteria by which to judge the flourishing genre of the French epic. This paper provides an overview of the Jesuit (Mambrun, Masen, Le Moyne, Le Brun) literary doctrine on the epic between 1650 and 1670. Mambrun discussed the definitions proposed in the main commentaries published before the impact of Boileau-Despréaux’s translation of De sublimitate in 1674. After having explored the range of different definitions of the epic genre and imitation, Mambrun’s contribution to a methodical analysis of Virgil’s achievements is highlighted.

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Adam Gschwend was one of a group of German professors who simplified and adapted Aftonio’s preceptive progymnasmatica to the social and cultural reality of his time and to the educational needs of the schools where he taught Rhetoric. The purpose of this article is to make a first study of his Palaestra Progymnastica, a brief manual intended for the teaching of the progymnasmata to students starting to study Rhetoric at the Gymnasium of Eisenberg. The Palaestra is not a mere summary of the Aphthonii Progymnasmata. On a formal level, the Palaestra is characterized by its schematic structure. The manual is essentially practical and includes instructions on style, formulas and advice. With regard to his examples, the themes are varied, although religious ones pre-dominated, which links him to the reformist pedagogical movement.

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In El reino de Celama of Luis Mateo Díez we find the copresence in the same place and time of what was and of what is, his objectification through the subjectivation of individual perception, the necessary memory to avoid oblivion, the void, Nothing, and all this using a few references that make present in the trilogy very different works and authors, some modern not so much, and especially references to classical Antiquity, to motifs as important and transcendent as the Hereafter, the Life and Death.

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In a sixth-century church in San Martín de Dulantzi (Álava), a silver spoon with the engraved name of its owner and a representation of the myth of Theseus and theMinotaur. The Christian context allows us to raise the possibility that this image is a primitive representation of the Christianization of the myth of Theseus.

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a) Edições de texto. Comentários. Traduções. Estudos Linguísticos

Marina Coray, Homer’s Iliad: The Basel Commentary. Book XIX, translated by Benjamin W. Millis and Sara Strack, edited by S. Douglas Olson - Rui Carlos Fonseca

Chiara Meccariello, Le Hypotheseis Narrative dei Drammi Euripidei. Testo, contesto, fortuna - Nereida Villagra.

Jordi Pàmias (ed.), Eratosthenes’ Catasterisms. Receptions and Translations - Nereida Villagra..

Properzio, Elegie Libro IV. Introduzione di Paolo Fedeli, commento di Paolo Fedeli, Rosalba Dimundo, Irma Ciccarelli - Ana Lóio

Maxime de Tyr, Choix de conférences religion et philosophie. Introduction, traduction et notes par Brigitte Pérez-Jean et Frédéric Fauquier - Rui Miguel Duarte

Galeno, Sobre el semen. Sobre el buen estado. Sobre la mejor constitución del cuerpo. Sobre la sustancia de las facultades naturales. Introducción, traducción, notas e índices de Pascual Espinosa Espinosa - Inmaculada Rodríguez Moreno

Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez, Curae quae ex hominibus atque animalibus fiunt. I. Estudio y edición crítica - Laura López Figueroa

Juan Gil de Zamora, Legende Sanctorum et festivitatum aliarum de quibus Ecclesia sollempnizat = Leyendas de los santos y de otras festividades que celebra la Iglesia, José Carlos Marín Iglesias, Eduardo Otero Pereira (edd.) - Maria João Correia Santos

Maria Helenada Cruz Coelho, A. M. Ribeiro Rebelo (edição crítica, tradução e comentário filológico), D. Pedro e D. Inês. Diálogos entre o Amor e a Morte. Sermão nas exéquias de D. Inês de Castro de D. João de Cardaillac - Arnaldo do Espírito Santo

António Guimarães Pinto, Apostilas a António Luís: 1. António Luís e João de Barros; 2. António Luís, António Pinheiro e Rodrigo Sanchez. Coordenação editorial e prefácio de António Manuel Lopes Andrade - Manuel José de Sousa Barbosa

Soror Mariade Mesquita Pimentel, Memorial da Infância de Cristo e Triunfo do Divino Amor (Primeira Parte). Organização, notas e estudos introdutórios de Fabio Mario da Silva - Abel N. Pena

Barbara Cassin (dir.), Philosopher en langues. Les intraduisibles en traduction - Rui Miguel Duarte

b) Literatura. Cultura. História

Lowell Edmunds (ed.), Approaches to Greek Myth - Nereida Villagra

AnaIriarte, Luísade Nazaré Ferreira (coords.), Idades e género na literatura e na arte da Grécia antiga - Valentina Caruso

J. Michael Padgett (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian vase-painting in the early fifth century B.C. - Ana Rita Figueira

R. Stoneman, K. Erickson, I. Netton (edd.), The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East - Hiteshkumar Parmar

Francesco de Martino, Carmen Morenilla(edd.), Teatro y sociedad en la Antiguedad Clásica. Vol. 63: Personajes secundarios con historia - Carlos Alberto Liz

JessicaHughes, Claudio Buongiovanni (edd.), Remembering Parthenope. The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present - Ana Lóio

Luke Roman, Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome - Ana Lóio

Virginie Leroux, Nicoletta Palmieri, Christine Pigné (dir.), Le Sommeil: Approches philosophiques et médicales de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance - Cristina Santos Pinheiro

Patríciade losÁngelesGonzález Gutiérrez, El vientre controlado. Anticoncepción y aborto en la sociedad romana - Cristina Santos Pinheiro

Laurence Gosserez (dir.), Le Phénix et son autre. Poétique d’un mythe. Des origines au XVIe siècle - Abel N. Pena

Germán SantanaHenríquez (ed.), Fueron felices y comieron perdices. Gastronomia y literatura - Paula Barata Dias

David J. Collins, S.J. (ed.), The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West - Gabriel Silva

Aline Canellis, Élisabeth Gavoille, Benoît Jeanjean (edd.), ‘Caritatis scripta’. Mélanges de littérature et de patristique offerts à Patrick Laurence - André Filipe Simões

José Martínez Gázquez, John VictorTolan (estudos reunidos por), ‘Ritus Infidelium’. Miradas interconfessionales sobre las práticas religiosas en la Edad Media - André Filipe Simões

Carlos A. Martins de Jesus, Poesia e Iconografia. Mito, desporto e imagem nos epinícios de Baquílides - Nuno Simões Rodrigues

Matheus Trevizam, Poesia didática: Virgílio, Ovídio e Lucrécio; Matheus Trevizam, Prosa técnica: Catão, Varrão, Vitrúvio e Columela - Gabriel Silva

Sabine Luciani (éd.), PatriciaZuntow(collab.), Entre mots et marbre. Les métamorphoses d’Auguste - Mireille Armisen-Marchetti

Andrew Zissos (ed.), A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome - Ana Lóio

W. J. Dominik, C. E. Newlands, K. Gervais (edd.), Brill’s Companion to Statius - Ana Lóio

Pilar Gómez Cardó, Delfim F. Leão, Maria Aparecidade Oliveira Silva (edd.), Plutarco entre mundos: visões de Esparta, Atenas e Roma - Marta González González

Germán Santana Henríquez (ed.), Plutarco y las Artes. XI Simposio Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Plutarquistas - Joaquim Pinheiro

Gabriela Marrón, El rapto de Prosérpina. Un nuevo contexto para la trama épica - Inêsde Ornellase Castro

Cosetta Cadau, Studies in Colluthus’ Abduction of Helen - Fotini Hadjittofi

Francisco Rico, I venerdì del Petrarca, seguito da Profilo biografico del Petrarca in collaborazione con LucaMarcozzi - Iñigo Ruiz Arzalluz

José Félix Duque, O Fuso e a Trama. Santa Beatriz da Silva e a Fundação da Ordem da Imaculada Conceição. Séculos XV e XVI - Paula Barata Dias

T. F. Earle, Catarina Fouto (edd.), The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Traditions, Texts and Performance - Manuel José de Sousa Barbosa

Hilaire Kallendorf (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Hispanic Theater - Maria Luísa Resende

David Hopkins, Conversing with Antiquity: English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope - Ricardo Nobre

Gustavo García Vivas, Ronald Syme. El Camino hasta La Revolución Romana (1928-1939). Prólogo de Anthony R. Birley - Nuno Simões Rodrigues

c) Instrumenta

Guido Bastianini, Michael Haslam, Herwig Maehler, Franco Montanari, Cornelia Römer (edd.), Marco Stroppa(adiuvante), Commentaria et lexica graeca in papyris reperta (CLGP), Pars I: Commentaria et lexica in auctores; vol. 1, fasc. 2.2: Alexis - Anacreon - Eftychia Bathrellou

Manuel Alexandre Júnior, Gramática de Griego: Clásico y helenístico - Maria José Mendese Sousa

Reinhart Herzog, Peter Lebrecht Schmidt (ed.), Nouvelle Histoire de la Littérature Latine, vol. I: La Littérature Latin de L’Époque Archaïque: des origines à la mort de Sylla; la période prélittéraire et l’époque de 240 à 78 av. J.-C., ed. Werner Suerbaum, ed. francesa dirigida por Gérard Frey-burger e François Heim - Ricardo Nobre

C. Fabião, A. Guerra, J. Almeida, R. R. de Almeida, J. Pimenta, V. Filipe, Marcas de ânforas romanas na Lusitânia (do Museu Nacional de Arqueologia de Lisboa ao Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida) - Catarina Gaspar

Maria Adelaide Miranda, Alicia Miguélez Cavero (edd.), Portuguese Studies on Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Marcello Moscone

Luana Giurgevich, Henrique Leitão, Clavis Bibliothecarum: Catálogos e Inventários de Livrarias de Instituições Religiosas em Portugal até 1834 - Maria Luísa Resende