COPIA DE HUMA CARTA ESCRITA PELO PADRE GUARDIAM DO REAL CONVENTO DE MAQUINÈS, E VICE-PREFEITO DAS SANTAS MISSOENS, QUE NAS PARTES DA BARBARIA CONSERVA A RELIGIOSA PROVINCIA DE SAO DIOGO

Franciscanos Descalc, os

Numéro d'objet:	31907
Date:	1756
Genre:	Plaquette
Lieu:	Lisbonne
Sujet:	Histoire

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Lisbon, [colophon] Acharse-ha no Adro de S. Domingos, e na Officina de Manoel Soares defronte de N. Senhora da Pena, 1756., 1756. 4°, disbound and stitched. Woodcut ornament on title page: wheel of fortune in front of a cross, with a crown above, flanked by cupids. Woodcut headpiece on p. 3. Light browning. Margin on final leaf trimmed close. In good to very good condition. 8 pp. *** First Edition in Portuguese of this account of an earthquake, the same one that destroyed large parts of Lisbon, that caused severe damage to the Franciscan missions in North Africa on All Saints Day (November 1, 1755). Within eight minutes the convent, church, hospital, pharmacy, and other buildings of the Trinitarians (Order of Redemption of Captives) in Mequinez (Meknès) were completely destroyed, as were the hospital and infirmary in Fez - but all the brothers escaped. The author also gives information on the extent of the destruction in the towns of Morocco, at Sale, Arzila, Larache, Marmora, Tangier, Tetouan, Ceuta, and describes the effect of the tsunami at the ports of Morocco. He compares the behaviour of the Muslims and Jews who suffered through the earthquake with that of Catholics.The letter is signed at Mequinez and dated November 8, 1755 (p. 7). It was published in Madrid, 1755, and later the same year in Barcelona, as Relacion escrita por el Padre Guardian del Real Convento de Mequinèz, y Vice-Prefecto Apostólico de las Santas Missiones, que en las partes de Berberia .The author, a Franciscan from Valença do Minho, was Padre Guardiam at the Real Convento in Mequinez, in north central Morocco.