Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Discipline.
Catholic Church.
Discipline.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian, with Latin passages in the Abbiura (f. 93r-93v, 94r-94v, 96v).

Summary:

Copy of ironical statement of faith, originally written following the publication in 1728 of the criticism of the Jesuit Giuseppe Sanfelice, while the author was in Vienna. Followed by Abbiura del Doctor Pietro Giannone (f. 89r-96v), a record of interrogations and retractions, including statements by Giannone and Vicar General Joannes Albertus Alferius, originally written in 1738 (f. 96v) while Giannone was imprisoned in Turin. Both were published among Giannone's posthumous works beginning in 1755.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, ii + 96 + ii; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁴ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7¹⁰ 8¹⁴ 9⁸; 1-96, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) parchment.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (signature in ink, dated 1888, and notes in pencil, first flyleaf; 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. 185 (Ms. Lea 188).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 606

Contributor:

Sanfelice, Giuseppe, 1665-1737, dedicatee.
Alferius, Joannes Albertus.
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Contains:

Abbiura del Pietro Giannone.

OCLC:

155967361