REGIMENTO do Santo Officio da Inquisiçam dos Reynos de Portugal. Lisboa. 1613.

REGIMENTO do Santo Officio da Inquisiçam dos Reynos de Portugal. Lisboa. 1613.
REGIMENTO do Santo Officio da Inquisiçam dos Reynos de Portugal. Recopilado por mandado do Illustrissimo, & Reverendissimo Senhor, Dom Pedro de Castilho Bispo, Inquisidor Geral, & Visorey dos Reynos de Portugal. Lisboa: Pedro Craesbeeck, 1613.

[ ]2, A-F6, G8, H-I4, K-R2 [ult. br.]; [2], 48, [19, 1 br.] ff.; 320 mm.

FIRST Regiment of the Holy Office printed, second Regiment of the Holy Office of the Portuguese Inquisition. Introduced into Portugal in 1536, its first regiment was duly compiled by order of Infante D. Henrique in 1552, believed to have been written by D. Baltasar Limpo, Archbishop of Braga, by the bishop of Angra, D. Rui Gomes Pinheiro , by the bishop of the Algarve, D. João de Melo and by the inquisitors Pedro Álvares de Paredes and João Alvares Silveira. Over the years to the first regiment, never printed at the time, several changes were introduced, culminating in the first printing and first major revision of the inquisitorial canons in 1613. This new regiment, compiled by the General Council, Inquisitors and some officers of the Holy Office , gives better instructions regarding the secrecy of the process, typifies bureaucratic practice, establishes the special functions of deputies and ministers of the Holy Office, establishes resolutions for different types of heresies and limits the power of the Bishop who, in the previous Regulation, authorized or not the torture practices. [cf. Bethencourt, Francisco, History of the inquisitions: Portugal, Spain and Italy – 15th-19th centuries. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2000, pp. 46-47]. The Regiment also underwent two more revisions with their respective editions, one in 1640 and another in 1774. All editions of the Regimento do Santo Ofício are very rare, especially this first and the second from 1640.

¶ Inocêncio, v. 1, p. 123; v.7, p. 58; Barbosa, v.1, p. 256; Pinto Matos, 526; Samodães, 2644