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Carlos V en Francia.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.
- Standardized Title:
- Carlos Quinto en Francia.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558--Drama.
- Charles.
- Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Autographs--Specimens.
- Vega, Lope de.
- Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
- Autographs.
- Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.
- Spanish drama.
- Spanish drama--Classical period.
- Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700.
- Spanish literature.
- Spanish literature--Classical period.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- autographs (manuscripts)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, Spanish.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Duke of Sessa [Lope's employer and patron]; Salustiano de Olózaga (1805-1873) [inscription, lower cover]; John Hobart Caradoc, second Lord Howden (1799-1873) [inscription, upper cover]; Robert Hoe [bookplate, inside upper cover]; Mr. and Mrs. John B. Stetson, Jr. (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Gift of Mrs. John B. Stetson, Jr., 1957.
- Physical Description:
- 68 leaves : paper ; 210 x 147 mm bound to 220 x 157 mm
- Production:
- Toledo (Spain), 1604.
- Language Note:
- Spanish.
- Summary:
- Autograph manuscript copy of the play Carlos V en Francia, by Lope de Vega, in the hand of the author. Signed by Lope de Vega and dated 20 November 1604, at Toledo (f. 61v).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from spine.
- Title from spine; title page has title Carlos 5⁰ en Francia (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 68 + i (modern paper); 1-[18], [v], 1-17, [vi], 1-[18], [iv]; [1-68]; contemporary foliation in ink; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. In the contemporary foliation each act of the play is independently foliated. References in this record are to the modern foliation.
- Script: Written in a cursive script in the hand of Lope de Vega. Notes in several other hands after the end of the play, some with dates and signatures (f. 62r-64r, 65v, 66v).
- Decoration: Ink drawing of a face (f. 46v).
- Binding: 19th-century brown gilt morocco with gold stamping. Inscription on front cover reads: "A Lord Howden. Recuerdo de antigua y constante amistad. Madrid, abril de 1858."
- Origin: Written in Toledo on 20 November 1604 (f. 61v).
- The paper is delicate and worn. The edges of most leaves are splitting and cracking.
- 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. 136 (Ms. Spanish 3).
- Publications about:
- Reichenberger, Arnold G. The Library Chronicle, XXIII (1957), pp. 82-83.
- Vega, Lope de. Carlos V en Francia. Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Arnold G. Reichenberger (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963). Contains a facsimile of the manuscript.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 63
- OCLC:
- 155962941
- Access Restriction:
- May be examined only by permission of the curator.
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