Details

Subjects:

Grégoire, Henri, 1750-1831.
Inquisition -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.
Inquisition.
Spain -- History -- Charles IV, 1788-1808.
Spain.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Polemics.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

A defense of the Spanish Inquisition, written by an author who only identifies himself as an anti-revolutionary Spaniard, in response to a letter by Henri Grégoire, bishop of Blois and French revolutionary leader, which criticized the Inquisition. The main text is thematically divided between the necessity of the Inquisition, its legitimacy, and its conformity to scripture and the teachings of the church. The work is preceded by a preface addressed to the Spanish people, in which the author refers to previous responses to Gergoire's letter by two clergymen. However he feels that both have omitted a defense of the Inquisition from their responses, which is what compels him to "make up for this silence." He may be, in part, referring to the response to bishop Grégoire written by Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva, published in 1798.

Contents:

1. f.3r-9v: Proemio a los españoles.
2. f.11r-234r: S[eñ]or ciudadano obispo.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 236 + i leaves; [i, 1-234, i]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Similar to Valls i Subirá, Bas, 89, but with the papermaker's name, Abad, enclosed in the circle and the name of a Valencian papermaking town, Alcoy, underneath.
Binding: Contemporary marbled calf (Zacour-Hirsch), with now detached ribbon bookmark.
Origin: Probably written in Spain in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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 112).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1396

OCLC:

308557874