Details

Subjects:

Díaz, Manuel.
Rodriguez, Ysabel.
Rodríguez, Sebastián, 1896-1968.
Inquisition -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800.
Jews -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800.
Trials -- Mexico.
Trials.
Jews.
Inquisition.
Mexico.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Comprises notarized contemporary transcripts of three trials of Portuguese Jews held by the Inquisition in Mexico in 1595.

Contents:

1. f.1r-115r: Processo contra Ysabel Rodriguez, natural dela Salceda en Portogal, muger de Manuel Diaz, mercader de Mexico.
2. f.116r-275v: Processo contra Manuel Diaz, mercader natural del Fondenel, reyno de Portogal. Vezino desta ciudad de Mexico.
3. f. 276r-464r: Processo contra Sebastian Rodriguez, natural dela villa de Sanct Vicente del obispado delaguardia en Portogal.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from title of first work; date from title pages (f. 1r, 116r, 276r).
Foliation: Paper, vii (19th-century notes) + iii (19th-century paper) + 465 + iii (19th-century paper); [i], 1-31, [i], 32-114, 1-33, [i], 34-41, [iv], 42-69, [i], 70-127, 127, 129-145, 145, 147-154; [ii], 1-5, [i], 6-56, [i], 57-60, [i], 61-79, [v], 80-178, [i]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-465]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Folio references in this record follow modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 24-25 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script, primarily in a single hand signed Pedro de Manozca, with a few leaves in at least one other hand.
Binding: 19th-century quarter leather. Both boards detached and spine leather completely lacking. Moderate oxidation of ink. 19th-century leaves bound into the front are brittle and crumbling at the edges.
Origin: Written in Mexico (Zacour-Hirsch) in 1595 (f. 1r, 116r, 276r).
Letter from General Riva Palacio to Henry Charles Lea dated 21 February 1872 bound inside upper cover.

Penn Provenance:

Former owners include: Vicente Riva Palacio (note bound into the manuscript) and Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Bequest from 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. 153 (Ms. Lea 25).
Lea, Henry Charles. The Inquisition in the Spanish Dependencies (New York, 1908), pp. 206, 208.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 804.

Contributor:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.
Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896, former owner.
Manozca, Pedro de, scribe.

Contains:

Processo contra Manuel Diaz, mercader natural del Fondenel, reyno de Portogal. Vezino desta ciudad de Mexico
Processo contra Sebastian Rodriguez, natural dela villa de Sanct Vicente del obispado delaguardia en Portogal.

OCLC:

155992792

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