A collection of 21 documents, originally issued from 1741-1759, numbered: Num. I. (or: Numero I.) [-XXI.], with separate or continuous paging, in some cases without paging; some documents with special title pages. Several variants are known, and probably different editions of some or all of the documents are existing.

Text in Portuguese; additionally, two briefs of Pope Benedict XIV are also printed in their original Latin versions.

Place and date of publication according to Brown, Sabin and Backer-Sommervoge.

Title vignette.

Folded plates unnumbered, the first and second with 2 figures each, all issued with document Num. XII.

Contents include (from table of contents): Breve que o Santo Padre Benedicto XIV. expedio em XX. de dezembro de M.DCC.XLI aos arcebispos, e bispos do estado do Brasil: ... (Num.I.: p. 1-4, [1-7]; contains also original version in Latin, beginning with: Immensa pastorum principis). -- Relaçaõ abbreviada da republica, que os religiosos Jesuitas das provincias de Portugal, e Hespanha, establecerão nos dominios ultramarinos das duas monarchias; ... / Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquês de Pombal (Num. IV.: p. [1], 1-34, 1-8). -- Breve do 1 de abril de 1758., pelo qual o Santo Padre Benedicto XIV. sobre as instancias de El Rey Fidelissimo contendas nas duas cartas assima indicadas, ... (Num. VII.: p. 1-6, 1-8; contains also original version in Latin, beginning with: In specula supremæ dignitatis). -- Ley dada em 3 de setembro do mesmo vnno [sic] para a proscripçaõ, des naturalizaçaõ, e expulsaõ dos sobraeditos regulares, nestes reinos, e seus dominios / Portugal. Sovereign (1750-1777: Joseph) (Num. XIX.: p. 41-48; dated at end 3 October 1759)

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:1207.

Sabin 14365.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, 3:717.

Backer-Sommervogel 11:1353-1354 (no.7)

For collation by signatures, see the John Carter Brown Library's bibliographical file.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound with: Supplemento a Collecçaõ dos breves pontificios, leys regias, e officios que se passaram entre as cortes de Roma, e Lisboa. Lisbon, 1760. Documents XX. and XXI. bound in reverse order. Document XII. does not include the Appendix (p. 1-6, followed by two blank pages [1-2]; signatures: a⁴), present in some copies.

John Carter Brown Library copy has: H. Antonio Caetano de Silva: autograph.