Autos manuscritos.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Religious drama, Spanish.

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:

codices (bound manuscripts)

plays (performing arts compositions)

Manuscripts, Spanish.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hugo Albert Rennert (bookplate, inside upper cover).

Physical Description:

124 leaves : paper ; 216 x 149 (178 x 66) mm bound to 217 x 162 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1600 and 1699]

Biography/History:

Spanish.

Summary:

Collection of three religious plays by Calderon.

Contents:

1. f.1r-50v: Loa; para el auto, intitulado La serpiente de metal.

2. f.51r-81v: Auto sacramental alegorico: A dios por varon de estado.

3. f.82r-122r: Auto sacramental alegorico intitulado: A tu proximo como a ti mismo.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from spine. Zacour-Hirsch uses the title of the first work as the overall title.

Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 122 + i (contemporary paper); [1-122]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a cursive script in what appears to be a single hand.

Binding: Contemporary vellum. Endleaves torn. Stains on cover. Top and bottom edges of leaves slightly worn.

Origin: Written in Spain in the 17th 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. 142 (Ms. Spanish 33).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 170

Contains:

Loa; para el auto, intitulado La serpiente de metal.

Serpiente de metal.

A dios por varon de estado.

A tu proximo como a ti mismo.

OCLC:

155962744