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

Title

Memorial /

Authors

• Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749
• Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Joseph, King of Portugal, 1714-1777, addressee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85243757)
• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1656
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9963360923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/900469717
• https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000269 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3c29h

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Portuguese, with occasional words in Latin and French

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799?

Place

Portugal?

Summary

Advice about reform in Portugal, including concerns about the Inquisition, addressed to Prince Joseph, who took an active role in ruling Portugal after his father, King John V, suffered a stroke in 1742.

Notes

• Title from cover title; later published under the title Testamento político.
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

32 leaves : 208 x 150 (173 x 108) mm

Collation

Paper, i + 32 + i; 1-8⁴; gathering signatures 1, 3, and 8 visible, upper left recto (f. 1r, 9r, 29r); 1-32, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) paper wrapper.

Layout

Written in 26-28 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in lead; quarto format.

Script

Written in semi-cursive script, possibly by more than one hand.

Provenance

• Possible early owner inscription on cover and first leaf.
   
• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; label inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r); probably purchased in 1982 (pencil note, upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800
• Kings and rulers--Duties
• Politics and government
• Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800
• Inquisition
• Portugal
• Portugal--Politics and government--1706-1750

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Polemics
• Manuscripts, Portuguese
• Codices

Keywords

• 18th century
• Portuguese
• Portugal
• Paper

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