Edictos de la S[ancta] Inqq[uisicion].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Discalced Carmelites (Spanish Congregation). Provincia de San Alberto de México, compiler.

Contributor:

Antonio de Anunciacion, padre, O.C.D., 1632-1713.

Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Language:

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Inquisition--Mexico--Early works to 1800.

Inquisition.

Confession--Catholic Church--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Confession.

Confession--Catholic Church.

Mexico.

Genre:

Codices.

Treatises.

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Mexican.

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction by Swann Galleries (New York), 17 November 2016, lot 351.

Physical Description:

94 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (190-195 x 105) mm bound to 222 x 160 mm

Production:

México, [after 1716]

Language Note:

Spanish, with words and quotations in Latin.

Summary:

Treatise on edicts issued between 1712 and 1716 by the Mexican Inquisition regarding confessions, compiled by a member of the Discalced Carmelite Province of San Alberto in Mexico. Two sections of the treatise are devoted to consultations of Padre fray Antonio de la Anunciacion with the Inquisition about the edicts, although they are dated 1714, after his standard death date of 1713.

Contents:

1. f.1r-1v: Capitulo unico

2. f.1v-3v: Preambulo a los confessores

3. f.4r-8v: Del Edicto de la Sancta Ynqquisiçion contra soliçitantes in confesione

4. f.8v-16r: Del Edicto general de la Fee y casos en el contenidos nuevamente promulgados

5. f.16r-20r: De el ultimo Edicto y que contiene en si otros a cerca de los Confesionarios

6. f.20r-22v: De la Ynstrucçion que el Sancto Tribunal nos dio a los Confesores Regulares para la Practica sobre lo mandado en los edictos referidos

7. f.22v-31r: De la Consulta sobre el Edicto general de la fee hecha al Sancto tribunal por Don Matheo de Hijar Canonigo Penitenciario de la Yglesia Catholica de Valladolid año de 1714 y sus Respuestas

8. f.31r-47r: De la primera Consulta sobre los referidos edictos hecha por el Padre fray Antonio de la Anunçiacion, Author de aqueste escripto en el mismo año de 1714 y sus Respuestas por el Sancto Offiçio

9. f.47r-53v: De la Segunda Consulta sobre los mismos edictos hecha al Sancto Tribunal por el mismo Padre fray Antonio de la Anunçiacion en 6 de Agosto de 1714 años, y sus Respuestas a ella

10. f.53v-70v: De algunas Cartas del Sancto Tribunal escriptas al Author de esta Obra, y Conduçentes a ella

11. f.70v-93r: De las Opiniones probables inpracticabiles en el distrito de la Sancta Ynqquisiçion de Mexico despues de publicaçion de los referidos edictos

12. f.94r-94v: Yndiçe.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from spine.

Collation: Paper, 94 leaves; 1-4²⁰ 5¹⁸ (-15, 16, 17, 18); quires 2-5 signed 2-5, upper left first recto; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; after folio 54, the foliation is partially or totally trimmed away and supplied in pencil.

Layout: Written in 18 long lines; vertical margins marked by folding; chancery quarto format.

Script: Written in cursive script, with headings in humanistic script, likely by one hand.

Decoration: Simple penwork on most headings (f. 1r, 8v, 16r, 22v, 47r, 53v, 54v, 61r, 61v, 65r, 70v, 93r, 94r).

Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) limp parchment, lower cover torn or cut away; remnants of two leather ties on upper cover; spine title in ink, Edictos de la S[ancta] Inqq[uisicion].

Origin: Written in Mexico after 1716 (latest date in text, f. 67v).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Arthur H. Lea Library Endowment Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1937.

OCLC:

1044915656