Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Papal documents.
Manuscripts, Italian -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with note in Latin.

Summary:

Copy of documents related to the inquisition in the 17th century, beginning with proceedings of the inquisition on 8 July 1660 [not 1610 as stated in Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue] (f. 1r-37v) and October 8, 1625 (f. 38r-40v); with a collection of papal constitutions of the 16th and 17th centuries dealing with the inquisition; and additional papal letters on various subjects (e.g., forbidding monks and nuns to make gifts (f. 41r-46r); "Dicliaratione della soprascritta costituione, "(an additional unpaginated signature bound in between f. 46 and f. 47); and decreti of the Holy Congregation on the celebration of the mass, ending with a letter signed Fran[cis]cus Card. Albanus (f. 47r-62v). At the end, a note "De excommunicatione" (f. 62v-64r); "Explicatione d'alcuni termini (f. 64r); privileges to the Capuchin order (f. 64v-66r); note in Latin on f. 66v dated 1701. Decrees, constitutions, and prohibitions on matters of doctrine apparently meant to be read aloud to congregations (occasional headnotes added later note the liturgical season in which the text is to be read).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, 74; 1-46, [viii], 47-62, [63-66]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary boards.
Origin: Written in Italy, early 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 5740).
Formerly owned by Andre de Coppet (New York).
Offered for sale at Sotheby's as part of the collection of the late Andre de Coppet, Part VI, 28-29 May 1956, lot 1567.
Offered for sale at Sotheby's, 6-8 July 1959, lot 761; sold to Maggs Bros. (London).
Sold by Maggs Bros. (London), 1959.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 170 (Ms. Lea 111 Italian).

Cited as:

Proceedings of the Inquisition in the Apostolic Palace (Ms. Codex 572). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
De Coppet, Andre, 1892-1953, former owner.

OCLC:

209598759