Box 2
Contains 14 Results:
Inquisicion de Cuenca, Public edict of faith, circa 18th century
Extended text for Edict of faith, requiring denunciation of various heresies, including Judaism, Lutheranism, Freemasons, and other crimes against the Santo Oficio.
Inquisicion de Sevilla, Public edict of faith, circa 18th century
Extended text for Edict of faith, requiring denunciation of various heresies. Space for place and date left blank.
Inquisicion de Corte, Public edict, 1706 December 9
Edict of faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies, including Islam, and anathematizing those who fail to comply. Contains signatures.
Inquisicion de Mexico, Edict of Faith, circa 1740
Extended text for Edict of Faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies; very extensive, mentioning specific Mexican practices, such as peyote use. Space for date left blank.
Ramirez, Andres, "Muy Reverendos señores- Alonso Carrança que la presente lleva…", 1540
Alonso Carranza, a silk weaver of Toledo, is certified to have completed his sentence by publicly standing hatless with a yellow candle during high mass. Contains signature.
Cuesta, Ignacio, "Hermano: Vuestra cassa se ha visto y comuncado…", circa 16th century
Notice of death penalty, addressed to an unnamed prisoner with final offer of reconciliation. Contains signature and wax seal.
"Processo del Santo Officio, Ana, yndia", 1538
Trial notes of secretary Diego de Mayorca of a trial against Ana, an "yndia," for the crime of bigamy. Contains signature of inquisitor bishop Fray Juan de Zumárraga of Mexico. Contains signatures.
"Sepan quantos esta carta, y publico instrumento de censo vieren como yo…", 1567
Printed form with blank spaces filled in by hand, detailing goods and properties seized by the inquisition, evaluated and subsequently sold to Juan Ximenez, an inquisition familiar. Relevent royal privileges are included. Contains signatures.
Sentencing Certificate, 1574
Printed certificate filled out by hand and signed by inquisitors, listing punishments for an excommunicated woman. Contains further manuscript notes on verso. Damaged, illegible in parts.
"Relación de los méritos del proceso de Ana Mendez doncella portuguesa, hija de Jorge Rodriguez...", circa 1596, 1600
Summary of 1594 trial, with secret evidence of numbered witnesses. Ana was condemned to death for Judaizing practices, with sentence commuted after reconciliation at a 1596 Auto de fe to confiscation of goods and perpetual prison. The document notes she was a good prisoner and recommends further commutation; a marginal note declares she was released in 1600. A later transcription of the document is included.
"Propositiones delatae ad Tribunal Sanctae Inquisitionis tanquam Assertiones Patris Vuadingi tomo 1 in 3a. Par...", circa 17th century
Notes on orthodoxy of theological writings by Lucas Waddingus (d. 1657) and Marco Antonio Alós y Orraca (d. 1667).
Engraving, "La Sale de L'Inquisition", circa 17th century
Appears to be an image cut from a copy of Charles Dellon's "Relation de L'Inquisition de Goa" or similar, depicting interrogation of a suspect by two inquisitors.
Lope de Izquierdo, et al., "Proceso contra Gaspar de los Reyes, Portugués de Queretano", 1620-1622
Trial of Gaspar de los Reyes, a Portuguese muleteer resident at San Luis de Potosí in Mexico, along with his mestiza companion Catelina de Parraga (de la Parra) for iconoclasm. Very extensive, with many witnesses and signatures of officials, including inquisition commissary fr. Lope Izquierdo; Gaspar de los Reyes' signature also appears. His punishment included banishment to Castile, she received two hundred lashes, and both were tortured.
Inquisition trial on demonic possession, 1634-1661
An account of an inquisition trial held in the vicinity of Rome against a woman accused of being possessed by the devil, after she killed someone with a musket while cursing and behaving in an obscene manner. The defendant was condemned to death by the Holy Inquisition.