[Inquisition instructions]
- Description
- Copy of a letter dated Madrid, 26 July 1801, from Grand Inquisitor Ramón José de Arce ordering all officials of the Inquisition to meet annually to hear instructions issued by previous Inquisitors (f. 18r-20r), preceded by copies of those instructions (f. 1r-17v). The earliest instructions copied date to 1498; subsequent copied documents refer to 1607 (f. 16v) and 1736 (f. 17v). Where three leaves have been cut out (before f. 9), comparison to similar instruction texts suggests that the text before and after the missing leaves is almost continuous (f. 8v-9r), though written by different hands or at different times. Many of the items in the instructions have No or Si written in the margin next to them. Most of the items concern procedures for tribunals and prisons.
- Creator
- Inquisidor General de España
- Arce, Ramón José de, 1755-1844
- Pobes, Fernando de (scribe)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- transcriptions (documents)
- Date
- 1801
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian
- Subject
- Inquisition -- Spain -- Early works to 1800
- Geographic Subject
- Spain -- Church history -- Sources
- Collection
- Henry Charles Lea Fund
- Extent
- 21 leaves : paper ; 295 x 205 mm.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Spanish.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Table of contents: 1. f.1r-14v: [Copy of Inquisition instructions (1498)] -- 2. f.14v-17r: Copia de la carta acordada del Secreto, que deben observar todos Inquisidores (1607) -- 3. f.17r-17v: Carta de los señores del Consejo, sobre trager en las funciones de Yglesia y otras, que han de obserbar los ministros (1736) -- 4. f.18r-20r: Copia de la carta general de SC[?] que manda se lea todos los años quando se hace con las instrucciones anteriores (1801).
- Foliation: Paper, 21; 1⁸ 2⁶⁻³(-1, -2, -3) 3¹⁰; [1-21], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; first gathering signed 1, lower right last verso (f. 8v); third gathering signed 2, upper left first recto (f. 12r).
- Layout: Leaves in first section written in 18-19 long lines with a left margin formed by folding (f. 1-8); leaves in second section, possibly by the same hand, written in 18-21 long lines with narrower and less consistent margins (f. 9-17); leaves in concluding document, by a different hand, written in 32-36 long lines with varying margins (f. 18-20); folio format.
- Script: Written in cursive script by two or three hands (f. 1-8, 9-17, 18-20); the last document may be in the hand of secretary Fernando de Pobes (f. 20r), or that name may be copied from the source document.
- Binding: Fragile sewing with no covers.
- Origin: Possibly written in Madrid in 1801 (date and location of last document copied, f. 20r).
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.
- Related works
- The Henry Charles Lea Fund Home Page
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 2103
- Provenance
- Offered for sale in Maggs Bros. (London) cat. 482 (1926), number 456.
- Offered for sale at auction by Hodgson & Co., 13 January 1932 (?), lot 550 (note in curatorial file).
- Sold by Paul Orssich (London), 2021.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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