Details

Subjects:

Inquisition -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.
Inquisition -- Portugal -- Early works to 1800.
Inquisition -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800.
Christian converts from Islam -- Portugal -- History.
Christian converts from Judaism -- Portugal -- History.
Christian converts from Judaism.
History.
Christian converts from Islam.
Inquisition.
Portugal.
Mexico.
Spain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Church records.
Manuscripts, European.
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Portuguese.

Summary:

Manuscript copy of an edition of this late 17th-century work published in 1722 in London (with a title page falsely placing the publisher in Villafranca). Collection of documents related to the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. The first part of the manuscript (f. 3v-56v), written in Portuguese, consists of a short letter written by King John IV of Portugal, followed by a general account of the Inquisition in Portugal, including acceptable practices and specific examples from individual cases. The second part (f. 58r-132v), written in Spanish, consists of philosophical arguments supporting the Inquisition, a letter from Pope Innocent XI detailing the rights of new Christian converts in Portugal, instructions (translated from Italian) on how to conduct interviews on witnesses brought before the Inquisition, and the case of Luiz Ramè, who was charged with heresy and tried by the Inquisition of Mexico. Ramè's case is written in the first person and begins with what appears to be a letter he wrote to an unnamed aristocratic woman.

Contents:

1. f.2r-3r: Prologo.
2. f.3r: Indice.
3. f.3v-5r: Alvara que o senhor rey dom João o quarto de gloriosa memoria mandou passar / John IV, King of Portugal.
4. f.6r-56v: Relacion portugueza de la Inquisicion de su reino.
5. f.58r-59v: Prefacion.
6. f.60r-90v: Reflexiones sobre las noticias reconditas del procedimiento de las Inquisiciones de España y Portugal con sus presos.
7. f.91r-102v: Sagrada atarazana o practica de la Santa Inquisicion de nuevo corregida y ampliada en Genova y en Perugia en la imprenta Cameral por Sebastian Lequini, 1653.
8. f.103r-132r: Relacion de la detencion de m[onsieu]r Luiz Ramè en las carceles de la Inquisicion en los reinos de Mexico y España, y de su feliz livranza embiada por él a Madama de [name not given].
9. f.132v: Post-scriptum.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 135 + i leaves; 1-4, 1-102, iii-vi, 2-146; [ii, 1-132, i]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center or outer corners; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords, lower right corner.
Layout: Written in 21-31 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Similar to Valls i Subirá, Garreta, 442, but with the initials G R underneath.
Binding: Quarter morocco, upper cover detached (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Written in Villafranca after 1722.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Michał Wisnievsky (bookplate, inside upper cover).
Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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. 176 (Ms. Lea 139).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1400.

Contributor:

Wisnievsky, Michał, former owner.
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Contains:

John IV, King of Portugal, 1604-1656.
Ramè, Luiz.
Lequini, Sebastian, translator.

OCLC:

310372654

Access Restriction:

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