Processo contra Goncalo Perez Ferro, natural de la Villa de Villaflor en el arcobispado de Braga en Portogal, vezino de Mexico

Contributor:

Riva Palacio, Vicente, 1832-1896 (former owner); Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor); Kaplan, Deanne (donor)

Name:

Tribunal de la Inquisición en México

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Spanish colony, 1540-1810

Date:

1597

Description:

File of documents related to the arrest and trial of Goncalo Perez Ferro by the Mexican Inquisition for a relapse into Judaism, later bound into a single volume. The documents include the order for his arrest, testimony against him, his confession, his testimony before various judges against 24 other Jews, and a record of the light punishment that he received after showing repentance. His signature appears many times on the documents (f. 74v-155v), some of which are in his hand.

Identifier:

2011.08.05.00002; (OCoLC)ocn890327367; (OCoLC)890327367; (PU)5018892-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Probably part of the Inquisitorial archives given to Vicente Riva Palacio in payment of a debt by the State of Mexico, in the second half of the 19th century; probably given by Riva Palacio to an unknown friend in the 1880s before he sold most of the collection back to the State before his death in 1896 (Javier Castaño).; Offered for sale at auction at Swann Galleries, 18 November 2008, part of lot 286.; Sold by Alfred Eidlisz (Brooklyn, New York), 2011.; Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2011.08.05.00002).

Subject:

Perez Ferro, Goncalo; Inquisition -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800; Jews -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800; Jews; Inquisition; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Sources; Codices; Legal documents; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

157 leaves : paper; 317 x 218 mm bound to 325 x 230 mm

Geographic Subject:

Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810 -- Sources; Mexico

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. 1r).; Foliation: Paper, ii + 157 + ii; 1-140, [141-157], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in multiple cursive hands, including that of Goncalo Perez Ferro.; Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century half leather over decorated paper with spine title in Spanish, Inquisicion MS 1597 (Javier Castaño).; Origin: Written in Mexico City, 1597 (f. 1r).; Damage due to ink oxidation on title page (f. 1); puncture tear with minimal loss of text (f. 153).; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, MS 56, Codex 001.1

Collection:

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