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Title

Libro quinto de varios assumptos y curiosidades

Authors

• Gascón de Torquemada, Gerónimo, 1572?-1637
• Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648
• Vélez de Guevara, Íñigo, 1644
• Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
• Clement XIII, Pope, 1693-1769

Other related names

• Ensenada, Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea, marqués de la, 1702-1781, recipient
• Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 1448
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4467017
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4467017

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish with one entire section (f. 283r-284r) and passages in another section (f. 247r-282v) in Latin. Title of former section contains some Italian

Origin

Date

after 1774

Place

Spain

Summary

The fifth book of an unknown larger collection containing copies of works from 17th- and 18th-century Spain, including the case of Bernardo Altarejos, imprisoned and executed in 1736 for defrauding the government through forgery; a biography of Rodrigo Calderón; the cases of Rodrigo de Silva Mendoza y Sarmiento, Carlos de Padilla, and Pedro de Silva Domingo Cabral, imprisoned, tortured, and, in the case of the latter two, executed, for their roles in a plot to oust the Hapsburgs from the Spanish throne in 1648; the case of Gaspar Méndez de Haro y Guzmán, referred to in the text only as the marqués de Carpio, duque de Montoro, who was accused of attempting to burn down the Palacio del Buen Retiro with the royal family inside; Locuras de Europa, a political work by Saavedra Fajardo; a general defense of the virtues of women written by an anonymous author; a letter written by Mathias Venegas recounting a trip to Morocco by the Spanish ambassador in 1579 and the treatment he received from Aḥmad al-Manṣūr, Sultan of Morocco; a short biographical work on Diego García de Paredes; instructions given to the Imperial ambassador, Lope Hurtado de Mendoza, in 1528 before being sent to Portugal; a short biography of Magdalena de la Cruz, recounting her rise to near-saintly stature resulting from supposed visions and communications with God and her subsequent exposure as a fraud and her trial before the Inquisition in 1546; three letters, one addressed to the Marqués de la Ensenada, all recounting an assault on the Castillo del Morro in Santiago de Cuba by English forces in the mid-18th century, as well as previous attacks by the English in other parts of the West Indies and the preparations made in Cuba as a result; a document written by Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, conde de Oñate, justifying his claim to the inheritance of his cousin, Juan de Tarsis, conde de Villamediana, including the latter's titles, wealth, and position of Correo Mayor of Spain and Naples; briefs from Popes Benedict XIV (in Latin) and Clement XIII placing parts 2 and 3, respectively, of Isaac-Joseph Berruyer's work, A history of the people of God, on the Index librorum prohibitorum; the records of an auto-da-fé from Lisbon, 1761; and a letter sent to Louis XV, King of France, in 1762, via the general council of the French clergy, from Pope Clement XIII asking for the king's support in protecting the Catholic faith from the increasingly threatening "enemies of this religion."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• For another manuscript of the biography of Rodrigo Calderón, see Ms. Codex 1345 (f.143r-174v), Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.
   

Watermark

Similar to Valls i Subirá, Farreras 339; unidentified watermark consisting of a cross inside an oval, flanked on either side by a griffin, with a crown above and two circles below; unidentified watermark consisting of a large armorial achievement. On the shield are two small castles and two animals, each in opposite corners, and a large circle over all containing three fleurs-de-lis. Above the shield is a large crown and below, an eight-pointed star made up of four arrowheads touching at the points. Beneath the star is another animal and beneath that the initials A M A. All around the shield are vines, flowers, and other ornamentations.

Extent

300 leaves : 293-313 x 197-216 mm. bound to 325 x 226 mm

Foliation

Paper, 300 leaves; near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. An earlier foliation scheme, 25-59 (f.245-282), written over or crossed out, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum (Zacour-Hirsch), with a pair of leather ties.

Decoration

Two-line title and ornamentation in ink (f.112r).

Script

Written in a cursive by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Purchased, 1968.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Portugal--History--18th century
• Inquisition--Portugal--Lisbon
• Autos-da-fé--Portugal
• Censorship (Canon law)--Early works to 1800
• Ambassadors--Spain--16th century

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Extracto de la vida, prision y muerte que tuvo y se executo? en esta corte en la persona de don Bernardo Altarejos..., f. 2r
• fol. 26v — Relacion de la vida y muerte de don Rodrigo Calderon..., f. 26v
• fol. 59r — Copia del tormento y sentencia que se dio contra don Rodrigo de Silva Sarmiento..., f. 59r
• fol. 67r — Relacion dela causa y castigo de don Carlos de Padilla..., f. 67r
• fol. 91r — Arte de lo bueno y lo justo para la causa que motivo? la prision del marque?s del Carpio, duque de Montoro, f. 91r
• fol. 112r — Locuras de Europa, dialogo entre Mercurio y Luciano por don Diego Saabedra del consejo de Su Majestad en el de Yndias, f. 112r
• fol. 161r — Dignidad de las damas de la reyna, noticias de su origen y honores, consagrada a sus mismas aras por un devoto, f. 161r
• fol. 181r — Carta escrita de Marruecos a 5 de agosto de 1579 por Mathias Venegas..., f. 181r
• fol. 194r — Breve suma de la vida y hechos de Diego Garcia de Paredes, f. 194r
• fol. 206v — Ynstruccion que a Lope Hurtado de Mendoza se le dio? el an?o de 1528..., f. 206v
• fol. 220r — Relacion de lo que hizo Magdalena de la Cruz monja professa de la orden de Santa Clara en el monasterio de Santa Ysavel de los Angeles, f. 220r
• fol. 229r — Discurso demostrable sobre las ydeas de los yngleses para el ataque y toma de la plaza de Santiago de Cuba assi por mar como por tierra, f. 229r
• fol. 235r — Diario delo occurido en Santiago de Cuba, f. 235r
• fol. 239r — Copia de carta escrita al excelentissimo sen?or, marque?s dela ensenada, f. 239r
• fol. 247r — Por el conde de On?ate por si y como padre de sus hijos successores llamados en el mayorazgo que fundo? el conde de Villamediana diffuncto..., f. 247r
• fol. 283r — Damnatio et prohibitio operis cui titulus..., f. 283r
• fol. 285r — Condenacion y prohibicion dela obra escrita en france?s y dividida en varios tomos que se titula Historia del pueblo de Dios..., f. 285r
• fol. 289r — Resumen de las personas y culpas por que estas fueron castigadas en el auto publico de la fee que se zelebro? en Lisboa, f. 289r
• fol. 291r — Lisboa 22 de septiembre de 1761, f. 291r
• fol. 292v — Copia del breve que nuestro santo padre Clemente XIII ha enviado a la junta general del clero de Francia..., f. 292v
• fol. 296r — Yndice de los assumptos que contiene este libro, f. 296r

Decorations

• fol. 112r — Decorated headpiece, f. 112r
• fol. 263r — Manicule, f. 263r