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Title

Processo contra Goncalo Perez Ferro, natural de la Villa de Villaflor en el arcobispado de Braga en Portogal, vezino de Mexico.

Authors

• Tribunal de la Inquisición en México

Other related names

• Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82087719)
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 001.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9950188923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/890327366
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31z5v

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

1597-1602

Place

Mexico City

Summary

File of documents related to the arrest and trial of Goncalo Perez Ferro by the Mexican Inquisition for a relapse into Judaism, later bound into a single volume. The documents include the order for his arrest, testimony against him, his confession, his testimony before various judges against 24 other Jews, and a record of the light punishment that he received after showing repentance. His signature appears many times on the documents (f. 74v-155v), some of which are in his hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Damage due to ink oxidation on title page (f. 1); puncture tear with minimal loss of text (f. 153).
   

Extent

157 leaves : 317 x 218 mm bound to 325 x 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 157 + ii ; 1-140, [141-157], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather over decorated paper with spine title in Spanish, Inquisicion MS 1597 (Javier Castaño).

Script

Written in multiple cursive hands, including that of Goncalo Perez Ferro.

Provenance

• Probably part of the Inquisitorial archives given to Vicente Riva Palacio in payment of a debt by the State of Mexico, in the second half of the 19th century; probably given by Riva Palacio to an unknown friend in the 1880s before he sold most of the collection back to the State before his death in 1896 (Javier Castaño).
   
• Offered for sale at auction at Swann Galleries, 18 November 2008, part of lot 286.
   
• Sold by Alfred Eidlisz (Brooklyn, New York), 2011.
   
• Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2011.08.05.00002).
   

Subjects topical

• Perez Ferro, Goncalo
• Inquisition--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Jews--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Jews
• Inquisition
• Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Sources
• Mexico
• History

Genres

• Sources
• Codices
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, Spanish
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

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