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

Title

Professione di fede

Authors

• Giannone, Pietro, 1676-1748
• Alferius, Joannes Albertus

Other related names

• Sanfelice, Giuseppe, 1665-1737, dedicatee
• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 606
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2486563
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486563

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with Latin passages in the Abbiura (f. 93r-93v, 94r-94v, 96v)

Origin

Summary

Copy of ironical statement of faith, originally written following the publication in 1728 of the criticism of the Jesuit Giuseppe Sanfelice, while the author was in Vienna. Followed by Abbiura del Doctor Pietro Giannone (f. 89r-96v), a record of interrogations and retractions, including statements by Giannone and Vicar General Joannes Albertus Alferius, originally written in 1738 (f. 96v) while Giannone was imprisoned in Turin. Both were published among Giannone's posthumous works beginning in 1755.

Notes

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

Extent

96 leaves : 306 x 208 (232 x 150) mm. bound to 313 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 96 + ii; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁴ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7¹⁰ 8¹⁴ 9⁸; 1-96, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) parchment.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (signature in ink, dated 1888, and notes in pencil, first flyleaf; bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Discipline
• Theology, Doctrinal--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover