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Title

Causa del maestro fray Froilan Diaz confesor de Carlos Segundo, año de 1695 1698?, y causa del yllustrissimo señor don Bartolome Carranza arzobispo de Toledo, año de 1558, ambos del orden de predicadores

Authors

• Salazar de Mendoza, Pedro, d. 1629

Call number

Ms. Codex 1367
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4446185
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4446185

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Madrid

Summary

Manuscript containing two separate works: The biography of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Toledo; and an account of the case of Froilán Díaz, Dominican friar and royal confessor. The majority of the Carranza text (f. 3r-68v) is dedicated to the bishop's life from the time he was first arrested on suspicion of heresy by the Spanish Inquisition in 1559 to his death in Rome in 1576. The Díaz text outlines how he took over from Pedro Matilla, the previous royal confessor, in 1698, the ensuing intrigues against him and plots to overthrown him, and his lengthy and secret imprisonment by the Inquisition while his trial bogged down in a battle over jurisdiction between the Spanish crown and the Vatican. The case ends with his eventual acquittal, restitution to his former position, and the reparation of his lost salary. Of particular interest are the details of Díaz's involvement in efforts to glean insight into the seemingly "bewitched' nature of the physically and mentally impaired king, Charles II, by conducting clairvoyance rituals with individuals supposedly possessed by demons.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• For other manuscripts of the biography of Bartolomé Carranza, see Ms. Codex 1338 and Ms. Codex 1345 (f.1r-120r), Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania; for other manuscripts of the case of Froilán Díaz, see Ms. Codex 1362, Ms. Codex 1363, and Ms. Codex 1452 (f.174r-235r), Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   

Watermark

Similar to Valls i Subirá, Españolas, 1885, but much more elaborate and with cross issuing from top of crown; watermark similar to Valls i Subirá, Farreras, 338, but with much larger circles and no initials.

Extent

191 leaves : 199 x 143 mm. bound to 203 x 155 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 191 + i leaves; [i, 1-187, iii]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 19-23 long lines in a text block of 175 x 100 mm. (f. 3r-68v); 22-25 long lines (f. 69r-186v).

Decoration

Some ornamentation in ink at the beginning of chapters; title with decorative letters and borders in ink (f.68v).

Script

Written in a cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church.--Archdiocese of Toledo (Spain)--History
• Catholic Church--Spain--History--16th century
• Bishops--Spain--Toledo
• Inquisition--Spain--Early works to 1800
• Inquisition--Spain--Toledo
• Demonology--Spain

Genres

• Codices
• Biographies
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — Causa del yllustrissimo sen?or don Bartolome Carranza arzobispo de Toledo, f. 3r
• fol. 69r — Historia del reverendissimo e yllustrissimo padre fray Froilan Diaz del orden de Predicadores, f. 69r

Decorations

• fol. 23v — Drawing, f. 23v
• fol. 39r — Drawing, f. 39r
• fol. 43r — Drawing, f. 43r
• fol. 91r — Decorated border, f. 91r