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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 193
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598--Poetry.
- Philip.
- Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.
- Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700.
- Spanish literature.
- Spanish literature--Classical period.
- Spanish poetry--Classical period, 1500-1700.
- Spanish poetry.
- Spanish poetry--Classical period.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- anthologies
- poems
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 4317 (spine label). Spine also bears an earlier label, "53".
- Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 June 1973.
- Physical Description:
- 191 leaves : paper ; 208 x 155 mm bound to 215 x 160 mm
- Production:
- [Leon or Estremadura], [1600?]
- Language Note:
- Spanish, with 2 poems by Camões in Portuguese.
- Summary:
- Collection of 205 poems, including five repeats, mostly by unnamed authors. Includes two poems by Luis de Camões (f. 45v-46v) and others by Luis de León, Fray Pedro de Ledesma and Mateo Rosas de Oquendo. A sonnet concerning the death of a king (f. 68v) probably refers to Philip II. Also includes medical recipes (f. 11v-12r) and a partial index (f. 43r).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); attributions to Camões, León, Ledesma and Rosas de Oquendo taken from Sotheby's catalog and Zacour-Hirsch.
- Foliation: Paper, 191; 2-192; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, except for poems added on the last leaves (f. 191-192).
- Binding: Contemporary calf, with remains of leather ties; upper board broken; cover badly worn; evidence of worm damage. Inscriptions in ink on upper and lower covers and on spine obliterated through wear. First quire slightly loose. Piece missing from f. 2, causing some loss of text. Wormhole going through several leaves toward the front of the volume. Several leaves damaged and torn. Many stains and smudges.
- Origin: Written in Leon or Estremadura, ca. 1600 (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 : Supplement B. The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 22 (Ms. Spanish 56).
- Publications about:
- Lasarte, Pedro. "Hacia un estudio del cancionero poético "Ms. codex 193" de la Universidad de Pensilvania." In Ignacio Arellano Ayuso and J.A. Rodríguez Garrido, editors. Edición y anotación de textos coloniales hispanoamericanos (Madrid, 1999), 233-244.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 193
- OCLC:
- 155962802
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