Details

Subjects:

Inquisition -- Portugal -- Early works to 1800.
Christian converts from Judaism -- Portugal -- History.
Christian converts from Judaism.
History.
Inquisition.
Portugal -- Church history.
Portugal.
Church history.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Church records.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Portuguese.

Summary:

Accounts of 13 different trials of the Inquisition taking place between the years 1603 and 1706 in Lisbon, Goa, Coimbra, and Rome. Most of the cases involve "new Christians" who have relapsed into Judaism. Of these, most are sentenced to be burned at the stake, being found either unrepentant or repeat offenders. Two men are also sentenced to be burned at the stake for engaging in sodomy with multiple male partners. The other offenses involve three individuals convicted of dealing with the devil and sentenced to some combination of confiscation of goods, incarceration, and in the case of father Antonio da Fonseca, excommunication. There is also one case (f. 83r-87r) of an individual practicing clairvoyance and being sentenced to receive remedial religious instruction. The spine and title page (f. ii recto) identify this manuscript as Volume I but no other volume is present in the collection.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. ii recto).
Foliation: Paper, i + 118 + i; [iv], 1-112, [ii]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords, lower right corner.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Watermark: Unidentified watermark consisting of the initials E A M; unidentified watermark consisting of the initials A P.
Binding: Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch).
Origin: Probably written in Portugal in the 18th century.
Leaves from the 1878 auction catalog (cover, first leaf, and annotated leaf with description of lot 1001) and a printed dealer's description are laid in the volume.

Penn Provenance:

Sold in the collection of John Forster at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 27 June 1878, lot 1001.
Purchased, 1961.

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. 189 (Ms. Lea 206).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1443

Contributor:

Forster, John, 1812-1876, former owner.

OCLC:

314177479