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Title

Breve relacion del auto particular de fee que el Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion de los reynos y prouincias de la Nueua España /

Authors

• Ruyz de Velez, Thomas, 17th century
• Tribunal de la Inquisición en México

Other related names

• Sarmiento de Sotomayor, García, conde de Salvatierra, y marqués de Sobroso, -1659, dedicatee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011140897)
• Quintana, Andres, former owner
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 042.1
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978100320103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1302099242
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35x25v8r

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

after 1647

Place

Mexico City

Summary

Description of an auto-da-fé held at the cathedral in Mexico City on 23 January 1647, with the names, cities of origin and residence, ages, and sentences of twenty-one prisoners accused of heresy and judaizing. The prisoners, nineteen men aged 21 to 58 and two women aged 36 and 40, mostly originally from Portugal, were accused of observing la ley de Moyses (the law of Moses) and rites and ceremonies including circumcision; and they received various sentences always including acts of penitence, confiscation of property, formal abjuration of errors, and exile, and sometimes also including numbers of lashes and varying lengths of imprisonment. One man was sentenced to five years on a Spanish galley (f. 17r-18r); another, a doctor, had his degrees nullified and was prohibited from practicing medicine (f. 23v-25v). The inquisitors were Juan Saenz de Mañozca (Juan de Mañozca y Zamora, archbishop of Mexico, 1645-1650), Francisco de Estrada y Escovedo, and Licentiate Bernabe de la Higuera y Amarillas (title page, f. 2r), and the account is dedicated to Garcia Sarmiento de Sotomayor, Viceroy of New Spain from 1642 to 1647.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• 1. f.5r: [Dedication] -- 2. f.6r-8v: [Introduction] -- 3. f.8v-9r: Antonio Mendez Chilón -- 4. f.9v: Beatriz Enriquez -- 5. f.10r-11r: Diego Suarez de Figueroa -- 6. f.11r-11v: Duarte Rodriguez -- 7. f.11v-12v: Duarte de Forres -- 8. f.12v-13v: Hernando Rodriguez -- 9. f.13v-14r: Francisco Lopez Correa -- 10. f.14r-14v: Francisco de Leon Xaramillo -- 11. f.14v-15r: Francisco Franco de Morera -- 12. f.15r-15v: Francisco de Acosta -- 13. f.15v-16r: Geronimo Fernandez Correa -- 14. f.16v-17r: Ysabel Enriquez -- 15. f.17r-18r: Juan Mendez -- 16. f.18r-19r: Juan Rodriguez Xuarez -- 17. f.19r-19v: Juan Cardoso -- 18. f.19v-20v: Manuel Alvarez de Arellano -- 19. f.20v-21r: Nuño de Silva -- 20. f.21r-22r: Pedro Lopez de Morales -- 21. f.22r-23v: Pedro Fernandez de Castro -- 22. f.23v-24v: Rodrigo Fernandez Correa -- 23. f.24v-25v: Tomas Mendez -- 24. f.25v-26r: [Conclusion]
   
• Title from title page (f. 2r).
   

Extent

26 leaves : 152 x 208 mm bound to 155 x 210 mm

Collation

Paper, 26; 1⁶ (first leaf is front pastedown) 2-3² 4-5⁶ 6⁶ (last leaf is end pastedown). Catchwords written in the lower right corner of almost every text page, both recto and verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later silk over paperboard with two bead and loop catches and a ribbon bookmark; material is frayed on fore edge and spine; a printed leaf with Latin text shows through slightly where the material over the spine is frayed.

Layout

Written in 24-25 long lines; in the section listing each of the accused (f. 8v-25v), a left margin is ruled in ink and the names extend into the margin.

Decoration

Full-page pen and wash illustration of the emblem of the Tribunal de la Inquisición en México, with the arm of a conquistador holding a crucifix and enclosed by the motto Exurge Domine iudica causam tuam (f. 3r); full-page pen and wash illustration of the coat of arms of the Dominican order (f. 4r); title page written in red ink (f. 2r).

Script

Written in cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Andres Quintana (signature in ink, f. 1v; possibly also monogram bookplate including the letters AQ inside upper cover).
   
• Offered for sale at auction at Morton Subastas (Mexico City), 21 August 2013, lot 19.
   
• Purchased for the Penn Libraries by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Kestenbaum & Co., 18 February 2021, lot 10) (Collectify no. 2021.03.05.00001; 13.1926).
   

Subjects topical

• Mañozca y Zamora, Juan de,--1580-1650
• Catholic Church--Mexico--History--Sources
• Catholic Church
• Jews--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Inquisition--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Autos-da-fé--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Trials (Heresy)--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Trials (Heresy)
• Autos-da-fé
• Inquisition
• Jews
• History
• Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Sources
• Mexico

Genres

• Sources
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Emblems (allegorical pictures)
• Pen and wash drawings
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, Mexican
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Title page
• fol. 5r — Dedication
• fol. 6r — Introduction
• fol. 8v — Antonio Mendez Chilón
• fol. 9v — Beatriz Enriquez
• fol. 10r — Diego Suarez de Figueroa
• fol. 11r — Duarte Rodriguez
• fol. 11v — Duarte de Forres
• fol. 12v — Hernando Rodriguez
• fol. 13v — Francisco Lopez Correa
• fol. 14r — Francisco de Leon Xaramillo
• fol. 14v — Francisco Franco de Morera
• fol. 15r — Francisco de Acosta
• fol. 15v — Geronimo Fernandez Correa
• fol. 16v — Ysabel Enriquez
• fol. 17r — Juan Mendez
• fol. 18r — Juan Rodriguez Xuarez
• fol. 19r — Juan Cardoso
• fol. 19v — Manuel Alvarez de Arellano
• fol. 20v — Nuño de Silva
• fol. 21r — Pedro Lopez de Morales
• fol. 22r — Pedro Fernandez de Castro
• fol. 23v — Rodrigo Fernandez Correa
• fol. 24v — Tomas Mendez
• fol. 25v — Conclusion

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Emblem of the Tribunal de la Inquisición en México
• fol. 4r — Coat of arms of the Dominican order