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Prattica per le cause del Sant'Offizio / del Cardinal Scaglia.

Author/Creator:
Scaglia, Desiderio, 1568-1639.
Publication:
[Italy, after 1616]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
60 leaves : paper ; 261 x 188 (231 x 136) mm bound to 264 x 190 mm
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Subjects:
Inquisition -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Trials (Heresy) -- Italy.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Italy.
Trials (Witchcraft).
Trials (Heresy).
Inquisition.
Italy.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Treatise on the handling of cases by the Inquisition, including chapters on heresy, polygamy, witchcraft, prohibited books, excommunication, Jews and infidels, false testimony, and torture. An alphabetical index of chapter subjects precedes the title (f. ii recto).
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 60; [iii], 1-52, [v]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Contemporary vellum.
Origin: Written in Italy after 1616 (publication date of Prospero Farinacci's De haeresi, reference on f. 20r).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover; signature dated 1886 and notes about manuscript, f. i recto).
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. 185 (Ms. Lea 184).
Publications about:
For analysis of the witchcraft chapter of this manuscript, see Lea, Materials toward a History of Witchcraft, pp. 963-966. Lea had another copy of a similar manuscript made in Piacenza in 1873, see UPenn Ms. Codex 603.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 602
Contributor:
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.
OCLC:
155967281