86,1 badly preserved volumes and 8000 MSS.; that
ai the Necessidades Palace, with 28,000 volumes; and that at the Ajuda Palace, with 20,000 volumes; and the University Library at Coimbra, with 45,000 volumes. The administration of the management of general edu- cation i- conducted bj a superior council of education at ( loimbra, under the supervision of the ministry of the Home Department See Schafer, Gesch, von Portugal illamk. 1836, 8 vols. 8vo); Schubert, Unndbuch der Stuatenkundi von Europa,it 8sq.; Busk, Hist, of Portu- gal i 1831 1 ; Dunham, Hist, of Portugal i 1832) ■ Ander-
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sen (H. C), In Spain, and a Visit to Portugal (1870); Chambers's Cyclop, s. v.
Portuguese Version. The oldest known Portu- guese version is that of the Psalms, which was published at Oxford in 1G95, together with a translation of the English liturgy, under the title, 0 Livro da Oracao commune Administracao dos Sacramentos e outros Ritos e Ceremonias da Igreja, conforme o Oso da Igreja de In- glaterra, iuxtamente com o Salterio ou Salmos de David (Oxford, na estampa do Teatro, anno de Christo, 1695). This translation is said to be very defective. Next in chronological order is the New Testament, or 0 Novo Testamento, istohe, todos os sacro sanctos Livros e Es- critos evangelicos e apostolicos do novo Concerto de nosso Fiel Senhor Salvador e Redemptor Jesu Christo : traduzido em Portugues pelo Patre Joam Ferreira a oV Almeida, Ministro Pregador do Sancto Evangelho. Com todas as Licencas necessarias (em Amsterdam, por Joam Crellius, 1712, 8vo). Seven years later the first part of the Old Testament, or the Pentateuch, was published under the title, Os cinco Livros de Moyses, chamados: 1, Genesis ; 2, Exodo ; 3, Levitico ; 4, Nume- ros ; 5, Deuteronomio (con privilegio real; Tranquebar, em India Oriental, na costa del Coromandel, em a estam- pa da Real Missaon de Dennemark, No anno de 1719, 4to). Then followed : 0 Livro dos Salmos de David, com toda diligi ntia traduzido de Texto original na Lingua Portugueza, conferido com as outras Translacoens e em multos Passos ileclarado pelo Padre Benjamin Schultze, Missionario del Reg de Dinamarca e Ministro da Pala- vra de Deus (Trangambar, em India Oriental, na costa de Coromandel, na estampa da Real Mission, No anno de 1721, 12mo) ; Os doze Prophetas Menores, convem a saber, Hoseas, Joel, Amos, Obadias, Jonas, Micheas, Nahum, J/abacuc, Sophonias, Uaggeo, Zacharias, Ma- lachias (com toda diligentia traduzido na lingoa Por- tugueza, polos Padres Missionaries de Trangambar. Trangambar, na officina da Real Missaon de Dinamar- ca, anno de 1732, 4to) ; and Os LJvros historicos do Velho Testamento, convem a saber, o Livro de Josue, o Livro dos Juizes, o Uvro de Ruth, o primeiro Livro dos Regs, o segundo Livro dos Regs, o primeiro Livro das Chroni- cas, o segundo Livro das Chronicas, o Livro de Esdras, o Livro de Nehemias, o Livro de Esther, traduzido na Lingoa Portugueza, pelo Reverendo Padre Joam. F< r- reira a" Almeida, Ministro Pregador do Santo Evangelho na Cidade de Batavia (revistos e conferidos com o tex- to original pelos Padres Missionaries de Trangambar. Trangambar, na officina da Real Missaon de Dinamarca, anno de 1738, 4to). In the preface to the historical books, which is dated April 21, 1738, we are told that the ministers of Batavia sent this translation of Joh. Ferreira d'Almeida to Tranquebar to have it printed there, which was done at the expense of the Dutch governor-general, Theodor van Cloon, and his widow, Antonia Adriana Lengele. The Pentateuch is not pre- ceded by any introduction, but the translation is accom- panied by notes. The same is the case with the histor- ical books. The whole is preceded by a Latin preface, in which the translator says that his predecessors, the two missionaries Barthol. Ziegenbalg and Johann Ernst Grundler, translated the Pentateuch into Portuguese; but in continuing their work he did not follow the com- mon order of the Biblical books, but rather preferred to translate first the Psalms, because, of all the books of the Old Testament, they are best adapted for public and private devotion. These are all the parts of the Bible which were translated and known in the 18th century. A revised edition of Almeida's Bible under the joint editorship of R. Holden and the Rev. R. C. Girdleston was issued in 1876 (see the " 73d Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society" [Lond. 1877], p. 89 sq.). Complete editions of the Bible in the Portuguese lan- guage were published by the American and British and Foreign Bible societies. See Rosenmiiller, Handbuch der biblkchen Literatur, iv, 298 sq. (B. P.)
Portumnalia, a festival celebrated among the an- cient Romans in honor of Portumnus, the god of har- bors. It was kept on the seventeenth day before the kalends of September.
Portumnus (Lat. portus, "a harbor"), the deity supposed among the ancient Romans to preside over harbors. A temple was erected in honor of him at the port of the Tiber, and he was usually invoked by those who undertook voyages.
Posadas, Fmancisco, a Spanish monk and preach- er, was born at Cordova in 1644. He entered the Do- minican Order, and, after teaching theology and exe- gesis, devoted himself to preaching with the greatest success. He was often prompted by his zeal to preach in public places and wherever he chanced to be, and even old age could not abate his fervor in teaching the poor of the country. Nothing equalled his charity and love of the degraded. He refused on several occasions the honors of the episcopate. He died at Cordova Sept. 20, 1713. He was beatified in 1817 by Pius VII. He left some works of edification : The Triumph of Chasfitg, against the Eri'ors of Molinos : — Life of St. Dominic: — Sermons (3 vols. 4to). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Genercde, s. v.