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Title

Colección de varios tractados.

Authors

• Sanches, António Nunes Ribeiro, 1699-1783
• Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749

Other related names

• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1657
(Philadelphia, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6336931
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6336931

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Portuguese and French

Origin

Date

1700-1799

Place

Portugal?

Summary

Second volume of a set of three of collected manuscripts on relations between Portugal and other nations. This volume includes two works discussing the New Christians or Marranos in Portugal and three works on Russian forces or relations between Portugal and Russia. A large document in the middle of the volume was a copy of document in Spanish about the detention of three Argentinian boats in 1703 in Rio de Janeiro and in the Algarve; it was removed by Alfonso Cassuto and replaced with blank leaves. The manuscripts prior to the missing manuscript (f. 1r-35v) are all by António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches except for an excerpt from a register of resolutions from the Estates of Holland. Alfonso Cassuto identified the first manuscript as an early version of Origem da denominação de christão-velho christão novo em Portugal, written in Sanches's hand with corrections (f. 1r-14v). The manuscripts following the missing manuscript (f. 36r-131v) are copies of a document that Cassuto attributed to Luiz da Cunha and diplomatic correspondence by Cunha from Paris. The diplomatic correspondence is lacking its beginning, starting in the middle of a letter at the top of a page.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine title; volume number from front flyleaf.
   

Extent

270 leaves : 312 x 214 mm. bound to 320 x 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 270 + i; [1-35, i-cxxxviiii (modern, blank), 36-131], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century leather stenciled or printed with ink or paint.

Script

Written in cursive script by multiple hands, including that of António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (f. 1r-14v).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Marquis of Rio Maior (Cassuto).
   
• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate inside upper cover; notes inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r, 14v, 31v, 33v); probably purchased in 1978 (pencil note inside upper cover).
   
• Appeared at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 55.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Dispatches
• Manuscripts, Portuguese--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Letter about the end of the persecution of Marranos in Portugal by the Inquisition], f. 1r
• fol. 16r — Notiçias da frotta de Russia, f. 16r
• fol. 21r — Extrait du regitre des resolutions des seigneurs Etats d'Hollande et West Frise, f. 21r
• fol. 27r — Noticias quesaõ necessarias sabersse [??] Russia para que Portugal possa naõ somente introduzir ali oseu commerçio, f. 27r
• fol. 33r — Etat des forces militaires de Russie, f. 33r