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Title

Noticias reconditas y posthumas del procedimiento de las Inquisiciones de Espanha y Portugal con sus presos

Authors

• John IV, King of Portugal, 1604-1656
• Ramè, Luiz

Other related names

• Wisnievsky, Michał, former owner
• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner
• Lequini, Sebastian, translator

Call number

Ms. Codex 1400
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4452089
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4452089

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish and Portuguese

Origin

Date

After 1722

Summary

Manuscript copy of an edition of this late 17th-century work published in 1722 in London (with a title page falsely placing the publisher in Villafranca). Collection of documents related to the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, and Mexico. The first part of the manuscript (f. 3v-56v), written in Portuguese, consists of a short letter written by King John IV of Portugal, followed by a general account of the Inquisition in Portugal, including acceptable practices and specific examples from individual cases. The second part (f. 58r-132v), written in Spanish, consists of philosophical arguments supporting the Inquisition, a letter from Pope Innocent XI detailing the rights of new Christian converts in Portugal, instructions (translated from Italian) on how to conduct interviews on witnesses brought before the Inquisition, and the case of Luiz Ramè, who was charged with heresy and tried by the Inquisition of Mexico. Ramè's case is written in the first person and begins with what appears to be a letter he wrote to an unnamed aristocratic woman.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Similar to Valls i Subirá, Garreta, 442, but with the initials G R underneath.

Extent

135 leaves : 215 x 165 (165 x 115) mm. bound to 222 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 135 + i leaves; 1-4, 1-102, iii-vi, 2-146; [ii, 1-132, i]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper center or outer corners; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords, lower right corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter morocco, upper cover detached (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in 21-31 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Michał Wisnievsky (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Church records
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Prologo, f. 2r
• fol. 3r — Indice, f. 3r