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This anonymous copyist worked for the Seminário Patriarcal, the Santa Igreja Patriarcal and at Vila Viçosa. He was a contemporary of Manuel Álvares Mosca with whom he collaborated. Reflecting a stylistic change in the work of Portuguese copyists as a whole in the period 1790-1810, the tails of quavers are curved to the right in his earlier copies, whereas in later ones they curve to the left.

António Jorge Marques, A obra religiosa de Marcos António Portugal (1762-1830): catálogo temático, crítica de fontes e de texto, proposta de cronologia (Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 2012), pp. 857-858.