Informacio recepta super conversione sarracenorum ad fidem catholicam : de mandato R[everen]di domini Joannis de Churruca inquisitoris in civitate et diocese Valentii et magnifici Andree de Palacio assessoris dicti sancti officii impresencia et asistencia R[everen]di d[omi]ni Martini Sanchiz in sacra theologia magistri Marchi Joannis de bas utriusque juris doctoris consiliarii regie audiencie pretacte.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Churruca, Joannes de.

Palacio, Andres.

Manrique, Alonso, -1538.

Gayangos, Pascual de, 1809-1897, associated name.

Turner, Robert S. (Robert Samuel), 1818-1887, former owner.

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

Language:

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Discipline.

Catholic Church.

Discipline.

Inquisition--Spain--Valencia.

Inquisition.

Moriscos--Spain--Valencia.

Moriscos.

Valencia (Spain : Region)--Church history.

Valencia (Spain : Region).

Spain--Valencia.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

notarial documents

testimonies

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Autograph description by the Spanish scholar Pascual de Gayangos, London, 1877.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 18-30 June 1888, in the first part of the collection of Robert Samuel Turner, lot 2991.

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea, signature dated 1895 (f. 1r); passed to the University of Pennsylvania with the Lea Library.

Physical Description:

163 leaves : paper ; 315 x 214 (229 x 150) mm bound to 317 x 225 mm

Production:

[Valencia], 1524.

Other Title:

Localos negocios de los nuevamente convertidos en el reyno de Valentia y Aragon

Language Note:

Spanish, with some Latin.

Summary:

Official notarized copy of testimony of witnesses summoned to respond before a commission in Valencia to questions about the authenticity of the conversion by decree of Spanish Muslims to Catholicism. The commission consisted of Juan de Churruca and Andres Palacio and was authorized by Don Alonso Manrique, archbishop of Seville. The commission from the archbishop with small seal under paper (f. 3r); the list of questions for the witnesses, signed Joannes Garcia Settius (f. 4r); and a statement titled "El poder del ordinario," notarized by Bartholomeo Martinez (f. 5r-5v), precede the depositions.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 9r).

Collation: Paper, 163; 1² 2⁶ 3-8²⁴ 9¹²(-12); quires 4-9 signed b-g on first leaves; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto, i-lxxxv, lxxxv-clii (f. 9-161); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. References in this record use the modern foliation.

Layout: Written in 27-30 long lines.

Binding: Original limp vellum (notarial document dated 1427 from Valencia); on upper cover in ink, Localos negocios de los nuevamente convertidos en el reyno de Valentia y Aragon.

Origin: Written in Valencia (f. 3r) in 1524 (f. 3r, 9r).

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. 152 (Ms. Lea 20).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1078

OCLC:

182522411