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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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1616
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749.
- Language:
- French
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800.
- Inquisition.
- Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800.
- Kings and rulers.
- Kings and rulers--Duties.
- 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
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