Details

Subjects:

Spanish literature.
Spanish poetry.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Collection of Spanish verse, beginning with "La oracion à S[a]n Gregorio." Contains index of contents (f. 202r-204r).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f i recto). Spine title: Coleccion de Cuen.
Incipit of "La oracion a S[a]n Gregorio": Un cura, y su doncella, en una aldea / La noche de difuntos ... (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 208 + i; [i], 1-207; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Supplemental modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, where trimming has removed the original numbers.
Script: Written in a cursive script; possibly in the same hand throughout, except for the index. Corrections are in a later hand.
Binding: 19th-century half-calf.
Origin: Written in Spain, late 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Occasional corrections throughout. Title page torn, lower outer section missing. On some folios the ink is very faint and hard to read. Trimming of the leaves before binding has removed some of the original folio numbers, but does not appear to have otherwise damaged the text.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1963.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (2). The Library Chronicle 36 (1970), p. 14 (Ms. Spanish 51).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 189

Contains:

Oracion à San Gregorio.
Cura, y su doncella, en una aldea / La noche de difuntos.

OCLC:

155962795