The first edition of The Lusíadas from the Royal Portuguese Reading Office seen in detail: the trajectory of a copy through material analysis
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https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2025.nEsp.a1358Keywords:
Os Lusíadas, First edition, Material analysis, Codicology, Conservation and restorationAbstract
This article is based on a detailed material analysis of a copy of the first edition of the book Os Lusíadas, by Luís Vaz de Camões, dated 1572, belonging to the collection of the Royal Reading Room, located in Rio de Janeiro. Through an analysis of the material, the text presents the typographic characteristics that individualize the copy, and the trajectory of the restoration and rebinding processes it underwent. The study, which seeks its basis in the methodologies of Codicology, Material Bibliography, and Conservation and Restoration, indicates the rarity and uniqueness of the copy that tells its own story through the marks left by time and man.
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MÁRSICO, Cida. O surgimento da encadernação e da douração. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, 2009.
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