Professione di fede

Contributor:

Sanfelice, Giuseppe, 1665-1737 (dedicatee)

Name:

Giannone, Pietro, 1676-1748; Alferius, Joannes Albertus

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1750

Description:

Copy of ironical statement of faith, originally written following the publication in 1728 of the criticism of the Jesuit Giuseppe Sanfelice, while the author was in Vienna. Followed by Abbiura del Doctor Pietro Giannone (f. 89r-96v), a record of interrogations and retractions, including statements by Giannone and Vicar General Joannes Albertus Alferius, originally written in 1738 (f. 96v) while Giannone was imprisoned in Turin. Both were published among Giannone's posthumous works beginning in 1755.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (signature in ink, dated 1888, and notes in pencil, first flyleaf; bookplate, inside upper cover).; Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Discipline; Catholic Church; Discipline; Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800; Theology, Doctrinal

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

96 leaves : paper; 306 x 208 (232 x 150) mm bound to 313 x 220 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, ii + 96 + ii; 1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4¹⁴ 5¹⁰ 6¹⁴ 7¹⁰ 8¹⁴ 9⁸; 1-96, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Layout: Written in 25 long lines.; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.; Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) parchment.; Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 18th century.; Italian, with Latin passages in the Abbiura (f. 93r-93v, 94r-94v, 96v).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 606