Maximas discretas sobre a reforma necessaria da agricultura, commercio, milicia, marinha, tribunaes, e fabricas, [&c.] de Portugal / reprezentadas, e dirigidas ao Serenissimo Senhor Dom Jozé, Principe da Beira, augusto filho do Senhor Rey Dom João V, por Dom Luiz da Cunha.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749.

Contributor:

• Joseph, King of Portugal, 1714-1777, addressee.
• Cardozo, Adolpho Soares, former owner.
• Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
• Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• French
• Latin
• Portuguese

Subjects (All):

• Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800.
• Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800.
• Kings and rulers--Duties.
• Inquisition.
• Portugal--Politics and government--1706-1750.
• Portugal.
• Politics and government.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• polemics
• Manuscripts, Portuguese.
• Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

• Formerly owned by Adolpho Soares Cardozo (Porto, Portugal; stamp on title page, f. 1r).
• Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; label inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r).
• Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 44.

Physical Description:

47 leaves : paper ; 203 x 155 (178 x 130) mm bound to 207 x 165 mm

Other Title:

Testamento político.

Place of Publication:

[Portugal?], [between 1750 and 1799?]

Language Note:

Portuguese, with occasional words in Latin and French.

Biography/History:

Portuguese ambassador in Vienna, the Hague, and Paris.

Summary:

Advice about reform in Portugal, including concerns about the Inquisition, addressed to Prince Joseph, who took an active role in ruling Portugal after his father, King John V, suffered a stroke in 1742.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 1r); later published under the title Testamento político.
• Collation: Paper, 47; 1⁷ 2¹² 3⁸ 4¹² 5⁸; [1-47], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
• Layout: Written in 24 long lines.
• Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.
• Decoration: Double-ruled border on title page (f. 1r).
• Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) mottled calf; gilt florets and letters C.M. on spine; paper label with blue border and number 1915 in ink on spine.
• Origin: Probably written in Portugal, in the second half of the 18th century (Kestenbaum).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1616

OCLC:

773605603