Linea de los Reyes de Aragon / autor Fray Ganberto.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Vagad, Gauberte Fabricio de.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Aragon (Spain)--History--Poetry.

Spain--History.

Spain.

History.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.

Physical Description:

7 leaves : paper ; 298 x 206 (260 x 155) mm bound to 300 x 210 mm

Production:

[Spain], [1550?]

Other Title:

Quando fuel cruel castigo / Julian conde malbado.

Language Note:

Spanish.

Biography/History:

Gauberte Fabricio de Vagad wrote under the name Fray Gamberto. He also wrote Crónica de Aragón, published in Saragossa in 1499.

Summary:

Poem on the kings of Aragon, in 96 numbered, 10-line verses. The work itself is dated ca. 1490 (f. 1r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).

Incipit: Quando fuel cruel castigo / Julian conde malbado / ...

Foliation: Paper, i + 7 + i; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in drypoint.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. The second line of the heading (f. 1r), which identifies Fray Ganberto [sic] as Vagad and dates the work to ca. 1490, is written in a different, perhaps slightly later hand. There are corrections in a contemporary hand.

Watermarks: Armillary sphere, almost identical with Briquet 14008. It is related to the group Briquet 13999-14008, all from southern France or the Pyrenees, and dated about 1550.

Binding: Modern cloth. Stains. One small wormhole. Some splitting and cracking of the edges of the leaves. Modern repairs to margins. Lower margins uncut.

Origin: Written in Spain in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 137 (Ms. Spanish 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 143

OCLC:

155962662