Ragionamenti ... colli quali ad istanza degli eccmi. sig[nor]i della città di napoli prova non doversi ricevere in questo religiosissimo regno l'odioso tribunale dell'inquisizione / del sig. D. Nicoló Capasso.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Capasso, Nicolò, 1671-1745.

Contributor:

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

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--Italy--Naples.

Inquisition.

Naples (Kingdom)--History.

Naples (Kingdom).

History.

Italy--Naples.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry C. Lea, 1878.

Bequest of Henry C. Lea, 1909.

Physical Description:

85 leaves : paper ; 303 x 215 (218 x 138) mm. bound to 310 x 225 mm

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

A defense of citizen opposition to the introduction of the inquisition in the Kingdom of Naples. This is another copy of the Ragionamenti, also owned by Henry Charles Lea (see description of UPenn Ms. Codex 588). Note in pencil on title page is in the hand of H.C. Lea. This copy is complete, with a list of contents.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (p. v).

Pagination: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 85 + i (contemporary paper); [vi], 1-161, [v]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary parchment.

Origin: Written in Naples in 1717 (p. v).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 181 (Ms. Lea 165).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 589

OCLC:

155967010