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)