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INQUISITION. ‘Practica Sancti Officii Inquisitionis ad Usum Caroli Centurioni Consultoris Genue’, Genoa, 1645, an attractive calligraphic copy.
In Latin, 156 pages, octavo (205 x 150mm), including title and index (some ink acidification, more marked to title). Contemporary limp vellum, title lettered on spine (general light wear and soiling). Modern slip-case.
A handbook to the proceedings of the Holy Inquisition. The 26 chapters are divided according to the different categories of malefactors who might interest the Inquisition, including heretics, polygamists, sorcerers, blasphemers, owners of prohibited books, and those who eat meat on prohibited days or who administer the sacrament without being priests, as well as ‘Jews and other infidels’; the concluding chapters provide a guide to false testimony, interrogations, and torture, amongst other matters. The Centurioni were one of the great Genoese families, and it cannot be a coincidence that manuscript is dated in the year that the future doge, Giovanni Battista Centurione (1603-1692), was chosen as state inquisitor.
In Latin, 156 pages, octavo (205 x 150mm), including title and index (some ink acidification, more marked to title). Contemporary limp vellum, title lettered on spine (general light wear and soiling). Modern slip-case.
A handbook to the proceedings of the Holy Inquisition. The 26 chapters are divided according to the different categories of malefactors who might interest the Inquisition, including heretics, polygamists, sorcerers, blasphemers, owners of prohibited books, and those who eat meat on prohibited days or who administer the sacrament without being priests, as well as ‘Jews and other infidels’; the concluding chapters provide a guide to false testimony, interrogations, and torture, amongst other matters. The Centurioni were one of the great Genoese families, and it cannot be a coincidence that manuscript is dated in the year that the future doge, Giovanni Battista Centurione (1603-1692), was chosen as state inquisitor.
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