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Inquisición en México auto-da-fé report : manuscript.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Arc.MS 56, Box 15, Folder 8
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Tribunal de la Inquisición en México
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Pliego, Hernando Alvarez.
- Catholic Church--Mexico--History--Sources.
- Catholic Church.
- Jews--Mexico--Early works to 1800.
- Jews.
- Inquisition--Mexico--Early works to 1800.
- Inquisition.
- Autos-da-fé--Mexico--Early works to 1800.
- Autos-da-fé.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Sources.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Spanish -- 16th century.
- Manuscripts, Mexican -- 16th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold at auction by Kestenbaum & Co. (Brooklyn, New York), 21 July 2020, lot 211.
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2021 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Kestenbaum & Co., 21 July 2020, lot 211) (Collectify no. 2020.08.10.00004; 20.1820).
- Physical Description:
- 1 bifolium : paper ; 31 x 22 cm (folded)
- Production:
- Mexico City, 1577.
- Summary:
- Brief report by Alonso Fernández de Bonilla, dated 20 December 1577, of an auto-da-fé held on 15 December 1577. The report is addressed to the dean and chapter of the Catholic Church in Guadalajara, and has folds and the remnants of a wax seal from mailing. Bonilla was an inquisitor serving under Pedro Moya de Contreras, Inquisitor of New Spain; he would later be Contreras' successor. Those being punished in the auto-da-fé included three English Lutherans, one Portuguese man who forswore Judaism, and about twenty others, including women charged with witchcraft and blasphemy. It is documented in other sources that the auto-da-fé took place in Mexico City and the Portuguese man was Hernando Alvarez Pliego, born in Oporto, Portugal, and a resident of Tula, Mexico, who was declared reconciled and fined 500 gold pesos.
- Cited as:
- Inquisición en México auto-da-fé report (Arc.MS 56, Box 15, Folder 8), Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1371176919
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