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

Title

Processo contra Ysabel Rodriguez, natural dela Salceda en Portugal, muger de Manuel Diaz, mercader de Mexico ... etc.

Other related names

• Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner
• Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896, former owner
• Manozca, Pedro de, scribe

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 804
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9927068303503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155905754
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2706830

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

1595

Place

Mexico

Summary

Comprises notarized contemporary transcripts of three trials of Portuguese Jews held by the Inquisition in Mexico in 1595.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title for manuscript from title of first work; date from title pages (f. 1r, 116r, 276r).
   
• Letter from General Riva Palacio to Henry Charles Lea dated 21 February 1872 bound inside upper cover.
   

Extent

464 leaves : 318 x 218 (258 x 160) mm. bound to 330 x 225 mm

Foliation

Paper, vii (19th-century notes) + iii (19th-century paper) + 465 + iii (19th-century paper); [i], 1-31, [i], 32-114, 1-33, [i], 34-41, [iv], 42-69, [i], 70-127, 127, 129-145, 145, 147-154; [ii], 1-5, [i], 6-56, [i], 57-60, [i], 61-79, [v], 80-178, [i]; contemporary or near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; [1-465]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Folio references in this record follow modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century quarter leather. Both boards detached and spine leather completely lacking. Moderate oxidation of ink. 19th-century leaves bound into the front are brittle and crumbling at the edges.

Layout

Written in 24-25 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script, primarily in a single hand signed Pedro de Manozca, with a few leaves in at least one other hand.

Provenance

• Former owners include: Vicente Riva Palacio (note bound into the manuscript) and Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Bequest from Henry Charles Lea, 1909.
   

Subjects topical

• Inquisition--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Jews--Mexico--Early works to 1800
• Trials--Mexico

Genres

• Codices
• Legal documents
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Document
• Legal
• Mexico
• Spanish
• Paper

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