Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Portugal -- History -- 17th century.
Catholic Church.
Inquisition -- Portugal -- Lisbon.
Autos-da-fé -- Portugal.
Autos-da-fé.
Inquisition.
History.
Lisbon (Portugal) -- Church history.
Portugal.
Portugal -- Lisbon.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Church records.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Portuguese.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Portuguese and Spanish.

Summary:

Records of two autos-da-fé of the Portuguese Inquisition occurring in 17th-century Lisbon. The first record, from February 23, 1682, is in Spanish and the convicted individuals have mostly been charged with Judaism. The punishments include some combination of confiscation of goods and property, a number of years in prison, and a number of years in exile. Other charges include witchcraft, superstition, and cheating, which carry sentences including fines, some number of lashes, and some number of years in exile. The second record, from May 10, 1682, is in Portuguese and again, the majority of the convicted individuals have been charged with Judaism. The sentences include confiscation of goods and property, perpetual imprisonment, a number of years in the galleys, a number of years in exile, and in the case of 4 unrepentant followers of "the law of Moses," execution. Other charges from this second record include renouncing one's faith (in the case of "new Christians"), sodomy, blasphemy, and making a pact with the Devil, which carry lesser sentences involving confiscation of goods and property, a number of years in prison, and possibly time in the galleys. There is also one man charged with returning to the "sect of Mahoma" after having been baptized. At the end of the manuscript (f .11-16) is a printed Spanish version of the May 10, 1682 record dated from the same year and titled Relacion verdadera del auto general de la fé que celebró el Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion de la ciudad de Lisboa en el terreno de palacio de dicha ciudad el domingo, 10 de mayo, deste presente año de 1682.

Contents:

1. f.1r-2r: Relacion de los reos que han de salir al auto particular de fee que se ha de celebrar en esta corte domingo 23 de febrero de 1682.
2. f.3r-7v: Lista das pessoaz que hao de ouvir suas sentenças do auto publico da fee que se celebra no terreiro do paço de esta cidade domingo 10 de mayo de 1682.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 16 + i leaves; [1-10], 1-6 (printed); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 33 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark consisting of a cross inside an oval, flanked on either side by a griffin, with a crown above and two circles below; unidentified watermark consisting of three circles, stacked vertically, with a crown above. The top circle appears to contain a cross.
Binding: Half cloth.
Origin: Written in Lisbon, 1682.

Penn Provenance:

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. 186 (Ms. Lea 193).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1412

Contains:

Relacion verdadera del auto general de la fé que celebró el Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion de la ciudad de Lisboa en el terreno de palacio de dicha ciudad el domingo, 10 de mayo, deste presente año de 1682.

OCLC:

310422217