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Periodical:Polyanthea Spirita
Polyanthea Spirita: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Polyanthea Spirita.
Subtitle:
Commemorativa da Encarnacao do Allan Kardec. Publicada sob os Auspicios da Sociedade Campista de Estudos Spirítas.
Published:
1882
Location:
Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Language:
Portuguese.
Description:

1/1, October 3, 1882.

4 pp., free.

Polyanthea means a collection of fragments or excerpts, and this could have been a one-off commemorative of the birthday of Allan Kardec (October 3) but seems to have been intended as one issue of a planned journal or serial — the surviving library copy in the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira is marked "No. 26" on the first page.
Other Sources:It was designed to interest those ignorant of Kardecism in the "doctrine," with the standard "Summary of Spiritist Laws," notes on the plurality of existences, a spiritualist bibliography, a biography of Kardec, a statement of the Bible as a Spirit Manifestation, etc.
Issues:Polyanthea Spirita V1 N1 Oct 3 1882