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Memorial dado a sua Mag[esta]d[e] a respeito do governo e prehiminencias da Santa Inquisiçao / por D[on] Alvaro Beserra de Gen[e]ral Inquisiça[o].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1611
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Beserra, Alvaro.
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800.
- Inquisition.
- Portugal.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- histories (literary genre)
- poems
- sonnets
- Manuscripts, Portuguese.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; embossed stamp, f. 54r, 107r).
- Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company as part of the Alfonso Cassuto collection, Part 2, 23 June 2011, lot 48.
- Physical Description:
- 54 leaves : paper ; 201 x 138 (168 x 110) mm
- Production:
- [Lisbon?, Portugal], 1750.
- Language Note:
- Portuguese.
- Summary:
- Memorandum on the history of the Inquisition attributed to the inquisitor Alvaro Beserra (or Becerra) and written for Joseph I, who was crowned king of Portugal in 1750, followed by a group of 8 sonnets (f. 103r-106v) attributed to João Crisóstomo and addressed to the king, the queen, and various nobles.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from caption title (f. 54r).
- Foliation: Paper, 54; 54-75, [i], 76-106; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 21 long lines. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner, some trimmed.
- Script: Written in cursive script.
- Binding: Paper wrapper, glued at spine.
- Origin: Written in Portugal, possibly Lisbon, after August 1750 (f. 101v, 102v).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1611
- Contains:
- Crisóstomo, João.
- OCLC:
- 770114323
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