Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Inquisition -- Italy.
Inquisition.
Italy.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
Handbooks and manuals.
Manuscripts, Italian -- 17th century.
Manuscripts, Italian -- 18th century.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

A guide to procedure before the Roman inquisition, with chapters on various categories of crime. Text appears to be virtually the same as in UPenn Ms. Codex 573 (f. 53v-113r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r).
Incipit: Le cause del Sant'Offizio, ò sono d'heresia, ò di sospittione di essa, et le delinquenti ... (f. 4r).
Foliation: Paper, 109; [1-109]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1700.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 5322 (note, inside upper cover).
Offered for sale at Sotheby's as part of the collection of the late Andre de Coppet, Part VI, 28-29 May 1956, lot 1559.
Offered for sale at Sotheby's, 6-8 July 1959, lot 762; 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. 171 (Ms. Lea 115 Italian).

Cited as:

Pratica del modo di procedere nell caose spettanti al Santo Officio (Ms. Codex 575). 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:

155966714