Note 700 — APPENDIX

The whole Bible in Portuguese was not translated until the eighteenth century, by João Ferreira de Almeida, O Novo Testamento (Amsterdam, 1681), Do Velho Testamento, 2 vols. (Batavia, 1748, 53). This is the version still commonly in use. Another translation, entitled Biblia Sagrada, was made from the Vulgate at the end of the eighteenth century by Antonio Pereira de Figueiredo (1725-97), author of some fifty theological and historical works in Latin and Portuguese, and a paraphrase (Historia Evangelica, 1777, 78, Historia Biblica, 1778-82) by Frei Francisco de Jesus Maria Sarmento (1713-90). See C. Michaëlis de Vasconcellos et S. Berger, Les Bibles Portugaises in Romania, xxviii (1899), pp. 543-8: La littérature portugaise est en matière de traductions bibliques d’une pauvreté désespérante. The Parocho Perfeito (1675) speaks of os parochos que não tiverem Biblias (p. 19). See also G. L. Santos Ferreira, A Biblia em Portugal, 1495-1850 (L. 1906).