Poëmas / de la vnica poetisa americana, musa dézima, soror Juana Ines de la Cruz, religiosa professa en el monasterio de San Geronimo de la imperial ciudad de Mexico ; que en varios metros, idiomas, y estilos, fertiliza varios assumptos, con elegantes, sutiles, claros, ingeniosos, vtiles versos, para enseñanza, recreo, y admiracion ; sacolos a luz don Juan Camacho Gayna, cavallero del Orden de Santiago, gouernador actual del la ciudad del Puerto de Santa Maria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695, author.

Contributor:

Camacho Gayna, Juan, editor.

Pérez de Montoro, José, 1627-1694.

Llopis, Joseph, active 1682-1713, printer, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Religious poetry, Mexican--Early works to 1800.

Religious poetry, Mexican.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Amigant i d'Olzina, Josep Ignasi d', active 18th century (former owner) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[16], 406, [10] pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Edition:

Tercera edicion, corregida, y añadida por su authora.

Fingerprint:

teo. n-e- o?e, enAn (3) 1691 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impresso en Barcelona : Por Joseph Llopis, y á su costa, Año 1691.

Language Note:

Text primarily in Spanish with some passages in Latin.

Notes:

First printed under title: Inundacion castalida de la unica poetisa, musa dezima ...; first printed in Madrid, 1689.

Forms volume 1 of the author's works. Volume 2 was printed under title "Segundo volumen de las obras" printed in Seville, 1692. Volume 3 was printed under title "Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico" printed in Madrid, 1700.

There are two other third editions: one printed in Valencia, 1691 and the other in Zaragoza, 1692, which is also edited by Juan Camacho Gayna.

Signatures: [sec.]⁸ A-2C⁸ (leaf D6 signed D4).

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device) and tail-pieces.

Type ornament head- and tail-pieces.

Printed marginalia.

Running title ("VILLANCICOS, AL GLORIOSO S.PEDRO") on leaf O4v printed on a paper slip and affixed in head margin.

Preliminary matter includes commendatory poetry by José Pérez de Montoro.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has early manuscript ownership inscription ("Ex lib. d[omi]ni dom[i]ni Josep di Ignacii Amigant et ab Olzina Bar[cinonen]sis Canonici") of Josep Ignasi d'Amigant i d'Olzina (active 18th century) on title leaf.

Cited in:

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I’ll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 12A

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810), 1870

Henríquez Ureña, P. Bibliogra̕fa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 20

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 65222

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, page 241

European Americana, 691/74

OCLC:

1238115086