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Los Benavides : comedia original manuscrita / de Lope de Vega.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 188
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Benavides family--Drama.
- Benavides family.
- Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.
- History.
- Spain.
- Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Autographs--Specimens.
- Spain--History--711-1516--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- autographs (manuscripts)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- plays (performing arts compositions)
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Manuscripts, Spanish -- 17th century.
- Autographs.
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Duke of Sessa; Karl Geigy-Hagenbach (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Acquired, 1961.
- Physical Description:
- 56 leaves : paper ; 219 x 157 (195 x 75) mm
- Production:
- Madrid, 1600.
- Other Title:
- Primero Benavides.
- Language Note:
- Spanish.
- Summary:
- Autograph manuscript copy of the play Los Benavides, by Lope de Vega Carpio, in the hand of the author. Play in three acts. The author's signature, together with the place and date, are on the verso of the last leaf (at the end of Act III). In the signature, the L of Lope is entwined with the M of Micaela. This monogram also appears at the end of Act II.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title and attribution taken from later paper wrapper. No overall title in the manuscript.
- Foliation: [i], 1-17, [ii], 1-17, [ii], 1-17 (each quire separately foliated); contemporary Arabic numerals, upper right recto.
- Binding: In three quires (each of the three acts in one quire). Not sewn; wrapped in later paper leaf.
- Origin: Written in Madrid, 15 June 1600.
- Lope appears to give the play the title "El primero Benavides" (cf. heading before the text of Act II: Del Prim[er]o Benavides Acto 2o).
- Note at the end of the text of Act II: Benabides [sic] de Lope de Bega [sic]. 1607.
- This manuscript has 148 more lines than the first printed text, Parte II, Madrid, 1609. (See Reichenberger, A. "The Cast of Lope's Los Benavides." Homage to John Mill (Indiana University, 1968)).
- 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. 145 (Ms. Spanish 50).
- Publications about:
- Reichenberger, Arnold G. "The Autograph Manuscript of Lope de Vega's Play Los Benavides." The Library Chronicle 28 (1962), 106-108.
- Reichenberger, Arnold G. "The Cast of Lope's Los Benavides." Homage to John Mill (Indiana University, 1968). An offprint of this article is on file at the library.
- El primero Benavides. Edited from the autograph manuscript with introd. and notes by Arnold G. Reichenberger and Augusta Espantoso Foley (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [c1973]).
- Cited as:
- Lope de Vega, Los Benavides (Ms. Codex 188). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 155962748
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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