[Los dos tratados del Papa, i de la Misa].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Valera, Cipriano de, 1532?-1625.

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Papacy--Early works to 1800.

Papacy.

Mass--Early works to 1800.

Mass.

Genre:

treatises

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Controversial literature.

Penn Provenance:

Inscriptions by French owners from the 1880s and 1890s on a flyleaf (p. v), including a note about a visit to Spain (sejour d'Espagne).

Formerly in the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside upper cover).

Physical Description:

234 leaves : paper ; 210 x 135 mm bound to 220 x 165 mm

Production:

[Spain?], [after 1588]

Language Note:

Spanish.

Biography/History:

Former Observantine Hieronymite monk in Seville who left the Catholic Church, lived in exile in England after Queen Elizabeth I came to power, and was a professor at Cambridge University after 1599; editor of a Spanish translation of the Bible.

Summary:

Two anti-Catholic treatises on the papacy and the Mass, first printed in 1588, likely copied from the printed edition, based on the close match of the marginal notes and index to a later printed edition. An index to names of popes at the end of the manuscript covers most of the first treatise.

Contents:

1. p.1-8: Epistola al christiano lector

2. p.9-247: Tratado primero del Papa y su autoridad

3. p.249-254: Tabla, en la qual muy clara y sucintamente se declara, quien sea el Antechristo, y porque marcas se pueda conocer

4. p.257-459: Tratado segundo de la Misa y de su santidad

5. [p.461-468]: [Index of popes].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied from printed edition of work.

Pagination: Paper, ii (20th-century) + i (19th-century) + 234 + ii (20th-century) leaves; 1-460, [461-468], later foliation in ink, upper outer corners.

Layout: Written in 28-31 long lines (except for the leaves in a second hand at the beginning of the second treatise, written in 21-24 long lines, p. 257-340); papal names, biblical references, and other notes written in margins.

Script: Written in cursive script by one hand, except for a section at the beginning of the second treatise in a second hand (p. 257-340).

Binding: 20th-century library cloth, title in ink on spine: History of the popes.

Origin: Probably written in Spain, after 1588 (date of printed edition).

OCLC:

1281575185