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

Title

Origem da denominação de X. V. Cristão velho, X.N. Christão novo, em Portugal, e as cauzas da continuação destes nomes, como tambem da cegueira judaica

Authors

• Sanches, António Nunes Ribeiro, 1699-1783

Other related names

• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1619
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5009545
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5009545

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Portuguese

Origin

Date

1756

Place

Paris

Summary

History of the categories of Cristão velho (Old Christian) and Christão novo (New Christian, converts from Judaism to Catholicism and their descendants) in Portugal, and of discrimination against and persecution of Christãos novos.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r); attribution to author in a near-contemporary hand on front flyleaf.
   

Extent

66 leaves : 213 x 160 (154 x 106-110) mm. bound to 218 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 66 + i; 1-66, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchword on each page, lower right corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) mottled calf.

Layout

Written in 14 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand; information about author and production of manuscript in a second hand (front flyleaf).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; label inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. i, 66 ).
   
• Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 56.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Polemics
• Manuscripts, Portuguese--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover