[Papeles do Antonio Vieira].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Vieira, António, 1608-1697, creator.

Contributor:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.

Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Crypto-Jews--Early works to 1800.

Crypto-Jews.

Jews--Brazil--Early works to 1800.

Jews.

Inquisition--Portugal--Early works to 1800.

Inquisition.

Genre:

Essays.

Manuscripts, Portuguese -- 17th century.

Manuscripts, Portuguese -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Offered for sale by Livraria Alfarrabista Manuel Ferreira (Porto, Portugal), Ref: 33737.

Sold at auction at Kestenbaum & Company (New York City), auction 96 (9 February 2022), lot 101.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2022 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify no. 2022.02.10.00001; 13.1960).

Physical Description:

76 leaves : paper ; 315 x 215 (280-290 x 150-155) mm.

Place of Publication:

[Lisbon?], [not before 1686]

Language Note:

Portuguese, with occasional phrases in Latin (for example, f. 102v).

Biography/History:

Lisbon-born Brazilian Jesuit who was opposed to the unequal treatment of cristãos novos (Jews or Muslims who converted to Catholicism and their descendants) and the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of Brazil; after being sent with other Jesuit missionaries in 1661 by Brazilian authorities back to Portugal, he was denounced for heresy and imprisoned by the Inquisition from 1665 to 1667, but a royal pardon enabled him to leave Portugal for Rome by 1669, where a judicial inquiry resulted in papal protection from the Inquisition and his return to Brazil in 1681.

Summary:

Eight gatherings removed from a larger volume (gatherings signed 5-12, leaves foliated 87-162) containing late 17th- or early 18th-century copies of writings by Antonio Vieira from the 1640s through the 1670s, mostly about the treatment of cristãos novos (Jews or Muslims who converted to Catholicism and their descendants) and Portuguese rule in Brazil.

Contents:

1. f.87r-102v: [Historical essay including decrees ordering the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1496, lacking beginning]

2. f.103r-119v: Papel que fes o Padre Antonio Vieyra, estando em Roma, a favor dos cristãos novos ... em 1671

3. f.119v-122r: Dezemgano Catholico sobre o negocio da gente de nascaõ Hebrea / pello Padre Antonio Vieyra da Companhia de Jezus, estando em Roma – 4. f.122r-126r: Resposta de Mendo de Foyos Pereira, Secretario de Estado, ao dezemgano catholico – 5. f.126r-136r: Papel em defesa da gente de Nação e a favor do recurso que se ententava ter com Sua Santidade sobre a pretencão da nova mudança dos estillos do Santo Ofício … / pello Padre Antonio Vieira da Companhia de Jezus – 6. f.136r-147r: Parecer do padre António Vieyra sobre os cristãos novos para haverem de serem admitidos neste reyno de que se lhe seguiriam grandes utilidades e certamente a conservação, feito no ano de 1643 – 7. f.147r-159r: Parecer que fes o Padre Antonio Vieyra da Companhia de Jesus por ordem do serenissimo Senor Rey D. Joao o 4o de Portugal sobre os negocios do Brazil – 8. f.159v-161v: Papel que fes o Padre Antonio Vieyra da Companhia de Jezuz por mandado da Serenissama Senora Raynha D. Luiza de Gusman … o Serenissimo Senõr Rey D. Affonço 6o Rey de Portugal para se ler ao dito Senõr Rey na presença dos mais dos Tribunaes – 9. f.162r-162v: Papel sobre os estados do Maranham / pello Padre Antonio Vieyra (incomplete).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Paper, 76; 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-8¹⁰; gatherings signed 5-12, upper left first recto; early foliation in ink, 87-162, upper right rectos.

Layout: Written in 26-37 long lines; wider outer margins formed by folding and used for citations keyed to numbers in the texts; folio format.

Script: Written in cursive script, possibly by a single hand.

Origin: Possibly written in Lisbon, after 1686 (f. 122r; in the response of Mendo de Foyos Pereira, undated here but probably originally written in the 1670s, he is identified as secretary of state, a position that he did not hold until 1686); dates of composition of some of the texts are as early as the 1640s (for example, f. 136r), but the copies in the extant manuscript were probably written close to the same time as the latest text.

Cited as:

Papeles do Antonio Vieira (MS 56, Codex 051.1). Library at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1534831700