Details

Other Title:

Quando fuel cruel castigo / Julian conde malbado.

Subjects:

Aragon (Spain) -- History -- Poetry.
Spain -- History.
Spain.
History.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Poetry.

Language:

Spanish.

Biography/History:

Gauberte Fabricio de Vagad wrote under the name Fray Gamberto. He also wrote Crónica de Aragón, published in Saragossa in 1499.

Summary:

Poem on the kings of Aragon, in 96 numbered, 10-line verses. The work itself is dated ca. 1490 (f. 1r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from caption title (f. 1r).
Incipit: Quando fuel cruel castigo / Julian conde malbado / ...
Foliation: Paper, i + 7 + i; [1-7]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 40 lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand. The second line of the heading (f. 1r), which identifies Fray Ganberto [sic] as Vagad and dates the work to ca. 1490, is written in a different, perhaps slightly later hand. There are corrections in a contemporary hand.
Watermarks: Armillary sphere, almost identical with Briquet 14008. It is related to the group Briquet 13999-14008, all from southern France or the Pyrenees, and dated about 1550.
Binding: Modern cloth. Stains. One small wormhole. Some splitting and cracking of the edges of the leaves. Modern repairs to margins. Lower margins uncut.
Origin: Written in Spain in the mid-16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven, Conn.), 1958.

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. 137 (Ms. Spanish 5).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 143

OCLC:

155962662