Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Informacio recepta super conversione sarracenorum ad fidem catholicam

Authors

• Churruca, Joannes de
• Palacio, Andres
• Manrique, Alonso, d. 1538

Other related names

• Gayangos, Pascual de, 1809-1897, associated name
• Turner, Robert S. 1818-1887, former owner
• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1078
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942303363503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182522410
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4230336

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish, with some Latin

Origin

Date

1524

Place

Valencia

Summary

Official notarized copy of testimony of witnesses summoned to respond before a commission in Valencia to questions about the authenticity of the conversion by decree of Spanish Muslims to Catholicism. The commission consisted of Juan de Churruca and Andres Palacio and was authorized by Don Alonso Manrique, archbishop of Seville. The commission from the archbishop with small seal under paper (f. 3r); the list of questions for the witnesses, signed Joannes Garcia Settius (f. 4r); and a statement titled "El poder del ordinario," notarized by Bartholomeo Martinez (f. 5r-5v), precede the depositions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 9r).
   

Extent

163 leaves : 315 x 214 (229 x 150) mm. bound to 317 x 225 mm

Collation

Paper, 163; 1² 2⁶ 3-8²⁴ 9¹²(-12); quires 4-9 signed b-g on first leaves; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, i-lxxxv, lxxxv-clii (f. 9-161); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in this record use the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original limp vellum (notarial document dated 1427 from Valencia); on upper cover in ink, Localos negocios de los nuevamente convertidos en el reyno de Valentia y Aragon.

Layout

Written in 27-30 long lines.

Provenance

• Autograph description by the Spanish scholar Pascual de Gayangos, London, 1877.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 18-30 June 1888, in the first part of the collection of Robert Samuel Turner, lot 2991.
   
• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea, signature dated 1895 (f. 1r); passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Inquisition--Spain--Valencia
• Moriscos--Spain--Valencia

Genres

• Codices
• Notarial documents
• Testimonies
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Spain
• Spanish
• Paper
• Christian
• Legal

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Embossed seal, f. 3r
• fol. 5v — Notarial signet, f. 5v
• fol. 161v — Notarial signet, f. 161v
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside back cover