Processo contra Goncalo Perez Ferro, natural de la Villa de Villaflor en el arcobispado de Braga en Portogal, vezino de Mexico.

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896, former owner.
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor.
• Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Perez Ferro, Goncalo.
• Inquisition--Mexico--Early works to 1800.
• Jews--Mexico--Early works to 1800.
• Jews.
• Inquisition.
• Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Sources.
• Mexico.
• History.

Genre:

• Sources.
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• legal documents
• Manuscripts, Spanish.
• Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

• Probably part of the Inquisitorial archives given to Vicente Riva Palacio in payment of a debt by the State of Mexico, in the second half of the 19th century; probably given by Riva Palacio to an unknown friend in the 1880s before he sold most of the collection back to the State before his death in 1896 (Javier Castaño).
• Offered for sale at auction at Swann Galleries, 18 November 2008, part of lot 286.
• Sold by Alfred Eidlisz (Brooklyn, New York), 2011.
• Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2011.08.05.00002).

Physical Description:

157 leaves : paper ; 317 x 218 mm bound to 325 x 230 mm

Place of Publication:

[Mexico City], 1597-1602.

Language Note:

Spanish.

Summary:

File of documents related to the arrest and trial of Goncalo Perez Ferro by the Mexican Inquisition for a relapse into Judaism, later bound into a single volume. The documents include the order for his arrest, testimony against him, his confession, his testimony before various judges against 24 other Jews, and a record of the light punishment that he received after showing repentance. His signature appears many times on the documents (f. 74v-155v), some of which are in his hand.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
• Foliation: Paper, ii + 157 + ii ; 1-140, [141-157], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
• Script: Written in multiple cursive hands, including that of Goncalo Perez Ferro.
• Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather over decorated paper with spine title in Spanish, Inquisicion MS 1597 (Javier Castaño).
• Origin: Written in Mexico City, 1597 (f. 1r).
• Damage due to ink oxidation on title page (f. 1); puncture tear with minimal loss of text (f. 153).

Cited as:

UPenn MS 56, Codex 001.1

OCLC:

890327366