University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1610

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DS ID:

DS26019

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1610

Title:

Explicaçoens e provas dos agravos, dos quais sequeixão a Seé App[ostolica] os christaos descendentes do sangue hebreu no reino de Portugal; contra os stillos, uzo, e modo de proceder dos Inquizadores daquelle reyno

Inquisition texts

Place:

Portugal

Portugal TGN

Date:

after 1673

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Portuguese, with occasional words, phrases, or brief passages in Latin

Portuguese WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 146 leaves : paper ; 259 x 198 (188 x 126) mm bound to 266 x 212 mm

Former Owner(s):

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990

Alfonso Cassuto WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Cassuto identified this work with the Portuguese section of Noticias reconditas y posthumas published in London in 1722 and sometimes attributed to the Portuguese Jesuit Antonio Vieira (note by Cassuto, who gives the date as 1720, inside upper cover), who pleaded with Pope Clement X on behalf of the New Christians.
Moderate oxidation of ink, resulting in bleed-through and some cracking in larger initials.
Foliation: Paper, ii + 146 + ii; [1-146], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 25 long lines; inner margin marked by folding. Catchwords on each page.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Decoration: 2- and 3-line calligraphic initials throughout.
Binding: Contemporary (17th-century) mottled calf, gilt spine.
Origin: Written in Portugal after 1673 (last date in text, f. 38r, 48v, 82r-82v; Kestenbaum dated manuscript to late 17th century).
Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate inside upper cover; notes inside upper cover, first flyleaf; embossed stamp, f. 1r, 95r, 145r).
Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 47.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Portuguese

polemics

Manuscripts, European

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Christian converts from Judaism

History

Inquisition

Portugal

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950095423503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3639k64z/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania