Dilig[encias] sobre averiguacion del principio, y origen del a vos comun, y pub[lica] que[?] divulgo de estar tomada, y [amenasar?] cierta providencia militar contra este S[anto] Oficio, dirigida a su abolicion, o mutacion, con otras varias divulgaciones

Contributor:

Real Academia de la Historia (Spain) (former owner)

Name:

Tribunal de la Inquisición en México

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Spanish colony, 1540-1810

Date:

1767/1768

Description:

Proceedings of the Inquisition in Mexico concerning riots in Mexico City and elsewhere in 1767. A compilation of various letters, declarations, and legal documents, many with signatures and many noted as reviewed by the inquisitors, whose surnames are given as Fierro, Vicente, and Amestoy. Sewn into a volume with no binding.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Mexican archeologist, congressman, and playwright Alfredo Chavero (ownership stamp, f. i recto and elsewhere).; Gift of Alfredo Chavero to the Real Academia de la Historia (Spain), 1873 (inscription, f. i verso).; Sold at auction by International Autograph Auctions, 13 July 2013, lot 690.; Chavero, Alfredo, 1841-1906, former owner.

Relation:

The Henry Charles Lea Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366238; Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000253

Subject:

Inquisition -- Mexico -- Early works to 1800; Inquisition; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); legal documents; notarial documents; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

175 leaves : paper; 210-315 x 152-220 mm bound to 315 x 220 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (f. i recto).; Foliation: Paper, 175; [i, 1-92, i, 93-172, i], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Script: Written in cursive script by numerous hands.; Origin: Written mostly in 1767, with a few documents late in the volume with added dates in 1768 (f. 125r, 131r, 137r, 140r).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1639

Collection:

Henry Charles Lea Fund