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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Collection of works by Hurtado de Mendoza. Mostly verse, including numerous sonnets, with a short section of prose at the end (p. 190-219) consisting of a fictional exchange of letters between Captain Salazar (Salaçar) and Señor Bachiller and other letters under his own name. Marginal notes in another hand in the prose section.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine.
Foliation: Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 217 + iii (contemporary paper); 1-35, 38, 37, 39-153, 155-156, 154, 159, 157, 158, 160-167, 169-219; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in an italic script by a single hand, with a few marginal and interlinear notes in one or more hands different from and probably later than the text.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Generally sturdy and in good shape, with secure binding. Paper in generally good shape, though the ink appears to be acidic; on many pages the text is difficult to read because the ink has oxidized and the text on the reverse side of the leaf is showing through.
Origin: Written in Spain, ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Maggs Bros. cat. 495 (1927), no. 480; sold by Maggs Bros., 1929.
Formerly in the Macauley Library, University of Pennsylvania (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. 136 (Ms. Spanish 1).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 70

OCLC:

155963025