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Costa, Affonso da (fl.1720). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Costa, Affonso da (fl.1720). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Arvore da Vida dilatada em vistosos e salutiferos ramos ornados de muitas aprasiveis, e saudiveis folhas, em que se deixaõ nver muitos e singulares remedios assim simplices, como compostos, que a Arte, e experiencia, a industria, e a curiosidade descubrio, para curarcom facilidade quasi todas as doenças, e queixas, a que o corpo esta sogieto, principalmente em terras desitiduas de Medicos e Boticos. Copiados de diversos Authores assim impressos, como manuscriptos, de varias noticias e experiencias vistas e approvadas ... Offerecida ... pello Padre Affonso da Costa da Companha de Jesus dda Provincia de Goa.
The first leaf contains a full-page historiated pen-drawing of the Tree of Life. At the end there is a very elaborate index.
Produced at Goa, this MS. is a very carefully written scribal copy of a work prepared for publication, and dedicated to King John V of Portugal (1689-1750). No record of publication has been found: the author published a 'Methodo de bom viver: intinerario christiaõ' in 1716.
Below the title, by another hand, 'Apilcado ao Cubiculo do P[adr]e R[ect]or do Nov[iciad]o.'
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