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Title

Memorial dado a sua Magestade a respeito do governo e prehiminencias da Santa Inquisiçao

Authors

• Beserra, Alvaro
• Crisóstomo, João

Other related names

• Joseph, King of Portugal, 1714-1777, recipient
• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1611
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5009543
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5009543

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Portuguese

Origin

Date

1750

Place

Lisbon?, Portugal

Summary

Memorandum on the history of the Inquisition attributed to the inquisitor Alvaro Beserra (or Becerra) and written for Joseph I, who was crowned king of Portugal in 1750, followed by a group of 8 sonnets (f. 103r-106v) attributed to João Crisóstomo and addressed to the king, the queen, and various nobles.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 54r).
   

Extent

54 leaves : 201 x 138 (168 x 110) mm

Foliation

Paper, 54; 54-75, [i], 76-106; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Paper wrapper, glued at spine.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner, some trimmed.

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; embossed stamp, f. 54r, 107r).
   
• Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 48.
   

Subjects topical

• Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Poems
• Sonnets
• Manuscripts, Portuguese--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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