Details

Subjects:

Inquisition -- Portugal -- Early works to 1800.
Christian converts from Judaism -- Portugal -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Crypto-Jews -- Iberian Peninsula -- Portugal -- Early works to 1800.
International relations.
Christian converts from Judaism.
History.
Inquisition.
Portugal -- Foreign relations -- Russia -- Early works to 1800.
Portugal.
Russia.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Dispatches.
Manuscripts, Portuguese.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Portuguese and French.

Summary:

Second volume of a set of three of collected manuscripts on relations between Portugal and other nations. This volume includes two works discussing the New Christians or Marranos in Portugal and three works on Russian forces or relations between Portugal and Russia. A large document in the middle of the volume was a copy of document in Spanish about the detention of three Argentinian boats in 1703 in Rio de Janeiro and in the Algarve; it was removed by Alfonso Cassuto and replaced with blank leaves. The manuscripts prior to the missing manuscript (f. 1r-35v) are all by António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches except for an excerpt from a register of resolutions from the Estates of Holland. Alfonso Cassuto identified the first manuscript as an early version of Origem da denominação de christão-velho christão novo em Portugal, written in Sanches's hand with corrections (f. 1r-14v). The manuscripts following the missing manuscript (f. 36r-131v) are copies of a document that Cassuto attributed to Luiz da Cunha and diplomatic correspondence by Cunha from Paris. The diplomatic correspondence is lacking its beginning, starting in the middle of a letter at the top of a page.

Contents:

1. f.1r-14v: [Letter about the end of the persecution of Marranos in Portugal by the Inquisition] / Philopater [António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches]
2. f.16r-19v: Notiçias da frotta de Russia / Doctor Sanches
3. f.21r-25v: Extrait du regitre des resolutions des seigneurs Etats d'Hollande et West Frise, pris dans l'assemblée de leurs nobles et grandes puissances le jeudy 10 fevrier 1752
4. f.27r-32v: Noticias quesaõ necessarias sabersse [??] Russia para que Portugal possa naõ somente introduzir ali oseu commerçio, e mutuamente a Russia em Portugal, mas taõbem retirar outras utilidades da boa amizade, e intelligencia com a Corte da Russia / Doctor Sanches
5. f.33r-33v: Etat des forces militaires de Russie / [António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches]
6. f.36r-83v: [Notes to the writer's son on improvement in Portugal with reference to Sanches's work on New Christians / Luiz da Cunha?]
7. f.85r-131v: [Diplomatic correspondence from Paris, 1737 / Luiz da Cunha]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine title; volume number from front flyleaf.
Foliation: Paper, i + 270 + i; [1-35, i-cxxxviiii (modern, blank), 36-131], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script by multiple hands, including that of António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (f. 1r-14v).
Binding: 18th-century leather stenciled or printed with ink or paint.
Origin: The component documents were probably written in Portugal, in the 18th century; the document removed from the volume was a copy of an account of an event in 1703; dates appearing in manuscripts in the volume (almost all copied from originals) include 1727 (f. 3r), 1737 (f. 85r-131v), 1743 (f. 17v-18r) and 1752 (f. 21r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Marquis of Rio Maior (Cassuto).
Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate inside upper cover; notes inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r, 14v, 31v, 33v); probably purchased in 1978 (pencil note inside upper cover).
Appeared at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 55.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1657

Contributor:

Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749.
Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

900543756