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Madrid (Spain)

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Aytona, Marquesa de [Aitona], "Señor mio. Con mucha estimación…", 1682 June 27

 File — Box 14, Folder: 267
Identifier: INQ-17
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Letter from the marquis to Don Miguel Perez de Olivan y Vazquez, an inquisitor, thanking him for assistance in a legal case ("pleyto").

Dates: 1682 June 27

Caballero, Josef Antonio, "Real Orden de Su Magestad comunicada por el Excmo. Sr. D. Josef Antonio Caballero...", 1806 May 13

 File — Box 16, Folder: 301
Identifier: INQ-398
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Copy of a letter concerning royal policy on inquisitorial jurisdiction, with reference to particular cases of Antonio and Géronimo de la Cuesta.

Dates: 1806 May 13

de Arce Reynoso, Diego; Pope Innocent X, Public edict regarding banned works, 1653 August 14

 File — Box 4, Folder: 62
Identifier: INQ-238
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Edict reproducing and publicizing Innocent X's bull "Cum occasione" against certain writings of Cornelius Jansen (originally banned by pope Urban VIII in 1641). Contains signatures and wax seal.

Dates: 1653 August 14

de Arce Reynoso, Diego, Public edict regarding the Canary Islands, 1656 September 9

 File — Box 5, Folder: 64
Identifier: INQ-240
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Edict banning a constitution issued by Rodrigo Gutiérrez y Rozas, bishop of Canary Islands.

Dates: 1656 September 9

De Astorga y Cespedes, Diego, Public edict regarding banned works, 1720 August 3

 File — Box 7, Folder: 118
Identifier: INQ-312
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Edict lamenting the continued availability of banned books and expressing the new Inquisitor General's desire to improve the situation. Astorga y Cespedes served only a few months in office, and may already have been replaced when this decree was issued. Contains signature at end.

Dates: 1720 August 3

De Camargo, Juan; Diego de Arce Reynoso, Public decree, 1732 May 10

 File — Box 15, Folder: 285
Identifier: INQ-324
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Decree republishing then-Inquisitor General Diego de Arce Reynoso's 1660 edict anulling a constitution of Pope Paul V, on the issue of whether religiou superiors are responsible for denouncing members of their own orders. Contains wax seal.

Dates: 1732 May 10

De Camargo, Juan, Public edict regarding banned works, 1724 April 29

 File — Box 7, Folder: 120
Identifier: INQ-317
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Edict banning a book entitled, "Dissertacion Historica, que sirve de explicacion a algunos lugares obscuros, que se encuentran en la Historia, Cartas, Alegaciones, y Apologia que ha dado a luz el Cardenal Alberoni."

Dates: 1724 April 29

de la Cana, Joseph, Certification given in favor of D. Luis Maldonado for the office of Notary of the Inquisition of Valladolid, 1700 July 15

 File — Box 12, Folder: 217
Identifier: INQ-109
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Document notes receipt of orders from inquisitor general (dated Madrid 1700) appointing Luis Maldonado, Order of Santiago, notary for the Valladolid inquisition. Contains signature of inquisitorial secretary Cana and wax seal.

Dates: 1700 July 15

De Mendoça, Juan, "Yo Don Iuan de Mendoça Canonigo de la santa Iglesia Cathedral de Leon, y Secretario del Secreto del santo Oficio de la Inquisicion de Toledo…", 1634 June 30

 File — Box 4, Folder: 54
Identifier: INQ-225
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Notice and description of a public book burning. Contains some manuscript notes, a signature, and wax seal.

Dates: 1634 June 30

De Mendoza y Sandoval, Baltasar, Public edict regarding banned works, 1700

 File — Box 6, Folder: 98
Identifier: INQ-291
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Edict controlling circulation of works by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. Space for date left blank.

Dates: 1700

De Orbe y Larreatigui, Andres; Pope Clement XII, Public edict, 1738 October 11

 File — Box 15, Folder: 286
Identifier: INQ-332
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Edict promulgating a papal condemnation of Freemasonry. Contains signature and wax seal.

Dates: 1738 October 11

de Rocaberti, Juan Tomas, Public edict, 1696

 File — Box 14, Folder: 271
Identifier: INQ-276
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Republication of the 1688 version of a 1634 edict condemning attacks on religious Orders. Space for date left blank.

Dates: 1696

de Sotomayor, Antonio, Banned books edict, 1634 June 30

 File — Box 4, Folder: 56
Identifier: INQ-227
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Edict banning books, especially those hostile to religious orders such as the Jesuits. Contains manuscript summary on verso, notaries' marks at bottom.

Dates: 1634 June 30

De Sotomayor, Antonio, Decree, 1716 October 29

 File — Box 15, Folder: 283
Identifier: INQ-326
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Copy of a 1633 decree ordering annual readings of papal bulls relating to the inquisition (such as "Si de protegendis") in all monasteries. Contains signature dated 1716, and a wax seal.

Dates: 1716 October 29

de Sotomayor, Antonio, Public edict, 1634 November 4

 File — Box 14, Folder: 255
Identifier: INQ-226
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Edict repeating the 1633 order to read papal bulls relating to the inquisition in all monasteries. Particular note is made of Pope Gregory XV's 1622 brief on cases of solicitation in the confessional; such cases fall under inquisitorial jurisdiction. Confirmation of this should be added to annual readings of Edicts of Faith etc. Contains signature.

Dates: 1634 November 4

de Sotomayor, Antonio, Public edict (2 folders), 1635 April 23

 File — Box 14, Folder: 256-257
Identifier: INQ-228/INQ-229
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Edict repeating the 1633 order to read papal bulls relating to the inquisition in all monasteries. Particular note is made of Pope Gregory XV's 1622 brief on cases of solicitation in the confessional; such cases fall under inquisitorial jurisdiction. Since then certain writings have emerged to the contrary; these are now condemned. Contains signature and wax seal.

Dates: 1635 April 23

De Sotomayor, Antonio, Public edict regarding banned works, 1633 June 30

 File — Box 4, Folder: 53
Identifier: INQ-327
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Edict banning books, especially those hostile to religious Orders such as the Jesuits. Contains text of public announcement and description of a book burning. INQ-225, INQ-227, INQ-264, INQ-276, and INQ-555 all issued on the same day.

Dates: 1633 June 30

de Sotomayor, Antonio, Public edict regarding banned works, 1641 March 9

 File — Box 4, Folder: 61
Identifier: INQ-236
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Edict reproducing and publicizing pope Urban VIII's ban on controversial texts relating to the allegedly ancient Arabic, Greek, and Latin writings of the Torre Turpiana or Monte de Valparayso (Sacromonte) in Granada.

Dates: 1641 March 9

"Espediente hecho con motivo del destierro del Inquisidor General", 1764

 File — Box 13, Folder: 232
Identifier: INQ-26
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Collection of documents relating to Charles III's conflict with and eventual exile of inquisitor-general Manuel Quintano Bonifaz from Madrid in 1761. Contains table of contents.

Dates: 1764

Fernandez [?] Castelao, Ysidro, "Senor Don Juan Francisco Marcolario. Se hall aconcluido el Tablado de los quatro claros…", 1803 July 8

 File — Box 4, Folder: 41
Identifier: INQ-27
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Letter describing in great detail the construction of stage and seating arrangements for royal events in Madrid. These were constructed in the same manner as used for inquisitorial autos de fe; Marcolario was in charge of arrangements for the auto of 1781.

Dates: 1803 July 8

Francisco Portero de la Vega, et al., "Orden que comunmente se guarda en el Santo Oficio de la Inquisicion, acerca del processar en las causas que en el se tratan...", circa 1624

 File — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: INQ-132
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MS title folio apparently taken from 1736 Valencia edition, but main printed text conforms with earlier Madrid editions. Extensive manuscript underlining and annotations in multiple hands, including Llanes and Portero. Bound with multiple other short seventeenth century inquisitorial texts, both MS and printed.

Dates: circa 1624

Gonzalez de Arbulu, Manuel; Juan de Albirtegui, "Manuel Gonzalez del Arbulu secretario del secreto del Santo Officio de la Inquisicion, del Reyno del Peru…", 1711, 1765

 File — Box 12, Folder: 220
Identifier: INQ-25
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Two related documents: the first acknowledges receipt of documents, some dating as back as 1705, from Madrid naming various persons (including Antonio Maldonado) to offices in the Peruvian tribunal (1711). The second is a notice from Madrid naming Francisco Matienzo to an inquisitorial post in Lima. His blood purity (limpieza) is mentioned (1765). Contains signatures and wax seal.

Dates: 1711, 1765

Guidice, Francesco; Pope Clement XI, Public edict regarding lift on banned works, 1715 December 20

 File — Box 7, Folder: 116
Identifier: INQ-310
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Edict lifting a 1695 ban on writings by the Jesuits Godfrey Henschenius and Daniel Papebrochius, with a list of corrections to be made to their texts.

Dates: 1715 December 20

Ibañez de la Riva Herrera, Antonio; Pope Clement XI, Public edict regarding banned works, 1709 October 19

 File — Box 7, Folder: 109
Identifier: INQ-304
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Edict publicizing clement XI's ban on a London Protestant edition of the Bible printed in "idioma americana" (an indigenous Mexican language).

Dates: 1709 October 19

Inquisicion de Corte, Public edict, 1706 December 9

 File — Box 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: INQ-295
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Edict of faith, requiring denunciations of various heresies, including Islam, and anathematizing those who fail to comply. Contains signatures.

Dates: 1706 December 9

Inquisicion de la Corte, Edict of faith, 1706

 File — Box 15, Folder: 275
Identifier: INQ-294
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Edict denouncing clergy who reject the oath of fidelity to King Philip V as required by Pope Clement XI, and requiring parishioners to denounce such clergy to the inquisition. Spaces for date left blank.

Dates: 1706

Inquisicion de la Corte, Public edict regarding banned works, 1744 September 6

 File — Box 8, Folder: 134
Identifier: INQ-342
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Edict banning Fr. Nicolás de Jesús Belando's "Historia Civil de Espana."

Dates: 1744 September 6

Inquisicion de la Corte, Public edict regarding banned works, 1750 July 24

 File — Box 9, Folder: 144
Identifier: INQ-355
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Edict ordering expurgation of a Marian devotional work.

Dates: 1750 July 24