Garcia de Molina, Julian. Relacion de las Prevenciones y forma como se elebro el Auto publico de la Fé...

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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Garcia de Molina, Julian. Relacion de las Prevenciones y forma como se elebro el Auto publico de la Fé...

Text in Spanish. Woodcut device of the Holy Office on title. Opening letter within floriated woodcut pp. (4). Unbound. Folio Palau 99420

Madrid: Diego Flamenco 1625

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Report in which Julian Garcia de Molina, Secretary of the Office of the Inquisition, describes an auto-da-fé (Ordeal by Fire) celebrated in Seville (1624). He recounts the participants and describes the elaborate procession, the highlight of which was the reading of the sentences passed upon a Jewish medical doctor and a renegade