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Memorial / feito por D[om] Luiz da Cunha, sendo decano dos embaixadores da Corte de Versailles e por elle offerecido ao Senhor D[om] José primeiro, sendo principe.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1656
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Cunha, Luiz da, 1662-1749.
- Language:
- 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:
- Possible early owner inscription on cover and first leaf.
- Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; label inside upper cover; embossed stamp, f. 1r); probably purchased in 1982 (pencil note, upper cover).
- Physical Description:
- 32 leaves : paper ; 208 x 150 (173 x 108) 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 cover title; later published under the title Testamento político.
- Collation: Paper, i + 32 + i; 1-8⁴; gathering signatures 1, 3, and 8 visible, upper left recto (f. 1r, 9r, 29r); 1-32, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.
- Layout: Written in 26-28 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in lead; quarto format.
- Script: Written in semi-cursive script, possibly by more than one hand.
- Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) paper wrapper.
- Origin: Probably written in Portugal, in the second half of the 18th century (Kestenbaum).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1656
- OCLC:
- 900469718
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