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Title

Explicaçoens e provas dos agravos, dos quais sequeixão a Seé Appostolica os christaos descendentes do sangue hebreu no reino de Portugal

Other related names

• Vieira, António, 1608-1697, attributed name
• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1610
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5009542
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5009542

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Portuguese, with occasional words, phrases, or brief passages in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1673

Place

Portugal

Summary

Anonymous polemic against the treatment of christaos descendentes do sangue hebreu (New Christians of Hebrew blood, converts from Judaism to Catholicism and their descendants) by the Portuguese Inquisition.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Cassuto identified this work with the Portuguese section of Noticias reconditas y posthumas published in London in 1722 and sometimes attributed to the Portuguese Jesuit Antonio Vieira (note by Cassuto, who gives the date as 1720, inside upper cover), who pleaded with Pope Clement X on behalf of the New Christians.
   
• Moderate oxidation of ink, resulting in bleed-through and some cracking in larger initials.
   

Extent

146 leaves : 259 x 198 (188 x 126) mm. bound to 266 x 212 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 146 + ii; [1-146], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (17th-century) mottled calf, gilt spine.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines; inner margin marked by folding. Catchwords on each page.

Decoration

2- and 3-line calligraphic initials throughout.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate inside upper cover; notes inside upper cover, first flyleaf; embossed stamp, f. 1r, 95r, 145r).
   
• Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 47.
   

Subjects topical

• Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800
• Christian converts from Judaism--Portugal--History--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Polemics
• Manuscripts, Portuguese--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover