Details

Subjects:

Inquisition -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.
Jews -- Spain -- Early works to 1800.
Jews.
Inquisition.
Spain.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Testimonies.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Spanish.

Biography/History:

The anonymous author writes as a Spanish Catholic priest whose first name was Alfonso (f. 71r). A typed note is mounted at the beginning of the text (f. 1r) that cites a reference to a work titled Defensio Statuti Toletani, attributed to Didaci Velasquez, published in Antwerp in 1575, in a list of works of Diego Salamancas, successively Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo, of Badajoz, and of Zamora.

Summary:

Statement before a representative of the Inquisition recanting preaching and belief that the Toledo Statute, which concerned purity of bloodlines and prohibited the descendants of Jews and Muslims who converted to Catholicism from receiving the same privileges as descendants of non-converted Catholics, was a heresy.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 72; 1-72, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Binding: Parchment wrapper with a flap on the lower cover and a pair of fabric ties; the wrapper is smaller than the gatherings and not attached to them; a faded word in ink on the outside of the lower cover.
Origin: Written in Spain in 1572 (f. 71r).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by (Licenciado?) Diego de Ayala (note in ink in left margin, 17th century?, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate and embossed stamp, f. 71r); possibly purchased in 1985 (pencil note, f. 1r).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1648.

Contributor:

Ayala, Diego de, active 1576-1578, former owner.
Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

892983425

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