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

Title

Prattica per le cause del Sant'Offizio

Authors

• Scaglia, Desiderio, 1567-1639

Other related names

• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 602
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486559
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486559

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Place

Italy, after 1616

Summary

Treatise on the handling of cases by the Inquisition, including chapters on heresy, polygamy, witchcraft, prohibited books, excommunication, Jews and infidels, false testimony, and torture. An alphabetical index of chapter subjects precedes the title (f. ii recto).

Notes

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

Extent

60 leaves : 261 x 188 (231 x 136) mm. bound to 264 x 190 mm

Foliation

Paper, 60; [iii], 1-52, [v]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover; signature dated 1886 and notes about manuscript, f. i recto).
   

Subjects topical

• Inquisition--Italy--Early works to 1800
• Trials (Heresy)--Italy
• Trials (Witchcraft)--Italy

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover