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Other Title:

Edicto manda el Rey [Ferdinand VI, King of Spain]
Ragionamenti intorno al tribunale della inquisizione
Report of Spanish royal official on controversies between the Spanish crown and the Holy See regarding ecclesiastical jurisdiction

Subjects:

Toledo, Pedro de, 1484-1553.
Catholic Church.
Inquisition -- Italy -- Naples.
Inquisition -- Spain.
Inquisition.
International relations.
Spain.
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Italy -- Naples (Kingdom).
Italy.
Naples (Kingdom).
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Spain.
Italy -- Naples.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian and Spanish.

Summary:

Four separate items bound together on jurisdictional disputes between Rome and the crowns of Naples and Spain defending royal/state prerogatives against the Inquisition. The first by Antonio Castaldo is a contemporary account of a 1547 revolt in Naples against the viceroy Pietro di Toledo upon his attempt to introduce the Inquisition. The revolt and its aftermath to ca. 1551 are discussed (in Italian). The second item is King of Spain Ferdinand VI's decree of 1751 against the Masons (in Spanish). On the following leaf (f. 36) is an abbreviated Italian translation of Ferdinand VI's decree on the previous page (not a different undated edict as described in Zacour-Hirsch). The third item is a partial copy of Niccoló Capasso's Ragionamenti intorno al tribunale della inquisizione (in Italian) [see UPenn Ms. Codex 588, 589, and 590]. The fourth item is a report on controversies over article 23 of the concordat between the Holy See and the royal court in Madrid concerning jurisdiction in the sale of ecclesiastical property, 1738-1739, by Pedro de Hontalba (in Spanish).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 129 + i (contemporary paper); f. 1-32, [f. vi], p. 1-129, [f. xxvi], contemporary foliation and pagination in ink, upper right recto and upper outer corners; [1-129], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by four different hands.
Decoration: Pen-and-ink initial and floral emblem (f. 1r).
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in Spain, 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: And. Tontoli. (bookplate, f. 1v); Henry C. Lea, 1875 (signature, flyleaf i recto).
Gift of Henry Charles Lea, 1909.

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. 183 (Ms. Lea 172 Italian and Spanish).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 596

Contributor:

Capasso, Niccoló, 1671-1745.
Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 1713-1759.
Hontalba, Pedro de.
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

OCLC:

155967158