Details

Subjects:

Calderón, Rodrigo, -1621.
Silva Mendoza y Sarmiento, Rodrigo de, duque de Híjar, 1600-1664.
Padilla, Carlos de.
Cabral, Pedro de Silva Domingo.
Méndez de Haro y Guzman, Gaspar, 1629-1687.
García de Paredes, Diego, 1466-1534.
Hurtado de Mendoza, Lope, -1558.
Aḥmad al-Manṣūr, Sultan of Morocco, 1549-1603.
Cruz, Magdalena de la, 1487-1560.
Villamediana, Juan de Tarsis, conde de, 1582-1622.
Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph, 1681-1758.
Catholic Church -- Portugal -- History -- 18th century.
Catholic Church.
Index librorum prohibitorum.
Inquisition -- Portugal -- Lisbon.
Autos-da-fé -- Portugal.
Censorship (Canon law) -- Early works to 1800.
Ambassadors -- Spain -- 16th century.
History.
Ambassadors.
Censorship (Canon law).
Autos-da-fé.
Inquisition.
Cuba -- History -- To 1810.
Cuba.
Morocco -- History -- 1516-1830 -- Early works to 1800.
Lisbon (Portugal) -- Church history.
Spain -- History -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800.
Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.
Spain -- History -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800.
Spain.
Morocco.
Portugal.
Portugal -- Lisbon.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Biographies (literary works)
Church records.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish with one entire section (f. 283r-284r) and passages in another section (f. 247r-282v) in Latin. Title of former section contains some Italian.

Summary:

The fifth book of an unknown larger collection containing copies of works from 17th- and 18th-century Spain, including the case of Bernardo Altarejos, imprisoned and executed in 1736 for defrauding the government through forgery; a biography of Rodrigo Calderón; the cases of Rodrigo de Silva Mendoza y Sarmiento, Carlos de Padilla, and Pedro de Silva Domingo Cabral, imprisoned, tortured, and, in the case of the latter two, executed, for their roles in a plot to oust the Hapsburgs from the Spanish throne in 1648; the case of Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, referred to in the text only as the marqués de Carpio, duque de Montoro, who was accused of attempting to burn down the Palacio del Buen Retiro with the royal family inside; Locuras de Europa, a political work by Saavedra Fajardo; a general defense of the virtues of women written by an anonymous author; a letter written by Mathias Venegas recounting a trip to Morocco by the Spanish ambassador in 1579 and the treatment he received from Aḥmad al-Manṣūr, Sultan of Morocco; a short biographical work on Diego García de Paredes; instructions given to the Imperial ambassador, Lope Hurtado de Mendoza, in 1528 before being sent to Portugal; a short biography of Magdalena de la Cruz, recounting her rise to near-saintly stature resulting from supposed visions and communications with God and her subsequent exposure as a fraud and her trial before the Inquisition in 1546; three letters, one addressed to the Marqués de la Ensenada, all recounting an assault on the Castillo del Morro in Santiago de Cuba by English forces in the mid-18th century, as well as previous attacks by the English in other parts of the West Indies and the preparations made in Cuba as a result; a document written by Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, conde de Oñate, justifying his claim to the inheritance of his cousin, Juan de Tarsis, conde de Villamediana, including the latter's titles, wealth, and position of Correo Mayor of Spain and Naples; briefs from Popes Benedict XIV (in Latin) and Clement XIII placing parts 2 and 3, respectively, of Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's work, A history of the people of God, on the Index librorum prohibitorum; the records of an auto-da-fé from Lisbon, 1761; and a letter sent to Louis XV, King of France, in 1762, via the general council of the French clergy, from Pope Clement XIII asking for the king's support in protecting the Catholic faith from the increasingly threatening "enemies of this religion."

Contents:

1. f.2r-26r: Extracto de la vida, prision y muerte que tuvo y se executó en esta corte en la persona de don Bernardo Altarejos, agente en negocios, que fue en Madrid en el dia 29 de agosto de 1736, por los delitos que cometió y por menor se contienen en esta relacion.
2. f.26v-58v: Relacion de la vida y muerte de don Rodrigo Calderon, marques de siete yglesias, y conde de la oliva / Geronimo Gascon de Torquemada.
3. f.59r-66v: Copia del tormento y sentencia que se dio contra don Rodrigo de Silva Sarmiento y Villandrano duque de Hijar de Salinas y Rivadeo.
4. f.67r-90v: Relacion dela causa y castigo de don Carlos de Padilla, don Pedro de Silva Domingo Cabral y don Rodrigo de Silva, duque de Hijar.
5. f.91r-110v: Arte de lo bueno y lo justo para la causa que motivó la prision del marqués del Carpio, duque de Montoro.
6. f.112r-159v: Locuras de Europa, dialogo entre Mercurio y Luciano por don Diego Saabedra del consejo de Su Majestad en el de Yndias / Diego de Saavedra Fajardo.
7. f.161r-180v: Dignidad de las damas de la reyna, noticias de su origen y honores, consagrada a sus mismas aras por un devoto.
8. f.181r-193v: Carta escrita de Marruecos a 5 de agosto de 1579 por Mathias Venegas, cautivo de una galera de España, sobre el recivimiento que hizo el jarife al embajador de Su Majestad [Ca?].
9. f.194r-206r: Breve suma de la vida y hechos de Diego Garcia de Paredes.
10. f.206v-219v: Ynstruccion que a Lope Hurtado de Mendoza se le dió el año de 1528, quando Su Majestad le envió a Portugal.
11. f.220r-228v: Relacion de lo que hizo Magdalena de la Cruz monja professa de la orden de Santa Clara en el monasterio de Santa Ysavel de los Angeles.
12. f.229r-234r: Discurso demostrable sobre las ydeas de los yngleses para el ataque y toma de la plaza de Santiago de Cuba assi por mar como por tierra.
13. f.235r-238v: Diario delo occurido en Santiago de Cuba.
14. f.239r-246r: Copia de carta escrita al excelentissimo señor, marqués dela ensenada.
15. f.247r-282v: Por el conde de Oñate por si y como padre de sus hijos successores llamados en el mayorazgo que fundó el conde de Villamediana diffuncto y por los acreedores que [?] su derecho a Jusephe Suarez de Carabajal.
16. f.283r-284r: Damnatio et prohibitio operis cui titulus: Storia del popolo di Dio dalla Nascitá del Missía sino alla fine della sinagoga etc. parte seconda: con Racolta di dissertationi etc. in fine la difessa della medessima seconda parte etc. / Benedict XIV.
17. f.285r-288v: Condenacion y prohibicion dela obra escrita en francés y dividida en varios tomos que se titula Historia del pueblo de Dios, tercera parte o declaracion literal delas epistolas de los apostoles segun los comentarios latinos del padre Ardiun, por el padre Ysac Joseph Berruyer dela compañia de Jesus, año de 1758 / Clement XIII.
18. f.289r-290v: Resumen de las personas y culpas por que estas fueron castigadas en el auto publico de la fee que se zelebró en Lisboa, en 20 de septtiembre de 1761.
19. f.291r-292r: Lisboa 22 de septiembre de 1761.
20. f.292v-295v: Copia del breve que nuestro santo padre Clemente XIII ha enviado a la junta general del clero de Francia para ser entregada de esta en manos del Rey.
21. f.296r-297v: Yndice de los assumptos que contiene este libro.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
For another manuscript of the biography of Rodrigo Calderón, see Ms. Codex 1345 (f.143r-174v), Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
Foliation: Paper, 300 leaves; near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. An earlier foliation scheme, 25-59 (f.245-282), written over or crossed out, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive by multiple hands.
Decoration: Two-line title and ornamentation in ink (f.112r).
Watermark: Similar to Valls i Subirá, Farreras 339; 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 a large armorial achievement. On the shield are two small castles and two animals, each in opposite corners, and a large circle over all containing three fleurs-de-lis. Above the shield is a large crown and below, an eight-pointed star made up of four arrowheads touching at the points. Beneath the star is another animal and beneath that the initials A M A. All around the shield are vines, flowers, and other ornamentations.
Binding: Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch), with a pair of leather ties.
Origin: Probably written in Spain in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1968.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A(2), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 1, p. 33 (Ms. Lea 450).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1448

Contains:

Gascón de Torquemada, Gerónimo, 1572?-1637.
Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648.
Ensenada, Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, marqués de la, 1702-1781, addressee.
Vélez de Guevara, Íñigo, 1644.
Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758.
Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769.
Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, addressee.

OCLC:

315888462