Details

Subjects:

Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish literature.
Spanish literature -- Classical period.
Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish poetry.
Spanish poetry -- Classical period.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Sonnets.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Collection of poems by Góngora. The poems are arranged according to type: Sonettos heroicos, amorosos, satyricos, burlescos, funebres, sacros; Canciones heroicas, amorosas, lyricas, funebres, sacras; Octavas sacras; Tercettos heroicos, satyricos; Decimas lyricas, satyricas, burlescas, funebres; Letrillas lyricas, satyricas, burlescas, sacras; Romances lyricos, satyricos, burlescos, funebres, sacros. Also contains "Fábula de Polyphemo" (f. 216r-223v); and "Soledades dirigidas al Excelentissimo Señor Duque de Bejar" (f. 224r-250v), in two parts. There is an alphabetical index of the poems (f. 1r-37v, preceding p. 1).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading of index (f. 1r).
Pagination: Paper, 250; [xxxvii], 1-66, 71-76, 79-134, 137-148, 151-226, 231-274, 279-298, 303-366, 371-452, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner; [1-250], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a minuscule book script by what appears to be a single hand, with marginalia and notes in many different hands.
Binding: Contemporary gilt calf. Binding has been repaired and rebacked, so original extent of volume cannot be determined. Leather of binding crumbling in places. Many leaves torn and frayed at the edges. Some leaves very fragile. Many stains and smudges. Outer edge of f. 17 missing, appears to have been torn off. Folios 101 and 102 cut or torn at the gutter and almost completely separated from the binding.
Origin: Written in Spain in the first half of the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
In its present form this manuscript is incomplete. In addition to the missing pages listed above, the volume is missing an unknown number of pages at the end: the text ends abruptly on p. 452, in the middle of the "Soledad segunda" and with a catchword at the bottom of the page. Also, there are references in the index to works beginning on pages numbered higher than 452.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Don Justo de Sancha (from title page of a catalogue for the sale of the Spanish literature collection belonging to the late Don Justo de Sancha, to be held on 3-4 December 1860, at the firm of S. Leigh Sotheby ? this title page was laid into the manuscript and is now on file in the Library). Other owners include: Bateman (bookplate, inside upper cover) and Hugo A. Rennert (bookplate, inside upper cover).

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. 143 (Ms. Spanish 37).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 187

Contains:

Colección Polifemo.
Soledades.
Fábula de Polyphemo.
Soledades dirigidas al Excelentissimo Señor Duque de Bejar.

OCLC:

155962792