Processo contra Goncalo Perez Ferro, natural de la Villa de Villaflor en el arcobispado de Braga en Portogal, vezino de Mexico; [manuscript].

Title:

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

Abstract:

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.

Coverage:

Mexico

Date:

1597-1602

Description:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Format:

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

Identifier:

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

Language:

Spanish.

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.

Publisher:

[Mexico City], 1597-1602.

Subject:

Inquisition -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800.; Jews -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800.; Codices.; Legal documents.; Manuscripts, Spanish; 16th century.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Type:

Manuscript

Personal Name:

Perez Ferro, Goncalo.; Riva Palacio, Vicente,; Kaplan, Arnold,; Kaplan, Deanne,

Corporate Name:

Tribunal de la Inquisición en México.

Call Number:

MS 56, Codex 001.1

Collection:

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