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Subjects:

Mythology, Classical -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish literature.
Spanish literature -- Classical period.
Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish poetry.
Spanish poetry -- Classical period.
Mythology, Classical.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Manuscripts, European.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Poetry.

Language:

Text in Spanish, introductory material (f. 1r-3r) and concluding note (f. 147r) in Portuguese.

Summary:

Story of Phyllis (Filis) and Demophon, also told in Ovid's Heroides, in ten cantos in ottava rima (the eighth and tenth cantos are incomplete, with only 5 and 15 stanzas respectively). Each canto is prefaced by a sonnet by Padre Manoel de Aguiar, and one stanza of ottava rima summarizes each canto at the end of the volume (f. 145r-147r).

Contents:

1. f.1r-4r: [Introductory poems, list of cantos]
2. f.5r-20r: El naufragio.
3. f.21r-34r: Las ruinas.
4. f.35r-53r: Los affectos.
5. f.54r-70r: Las selvas.
6. f. 71r-92v: Los zelos.
7. f. 93r-103r: La soledad.
8. f. 104r-119v: Las lagrimas.
9. f.120r-121v: Las armas [incomplete]
10. f.123r-140v: Los extremos.
11. f.141r-144v: Los suspiros [incomplete]
12. f.145r-147r: Argumentos dos cantos deste poema da Filis.

Notes:

Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 147; [1-147], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Main text written in ottava rima, usually with 3 stanzas to a page.
Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in the text (for example, f. 52r) and summaries and notes at the end in another hand; one of the 2 hands may be that of Robert Southey (later note in pencil, front flyleaf).
Binding: Contemporary calf; cover badly deteriorating, broken at both hinges, with front and back boards almost completely detached.
Origin: Written circa 1800 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Robert Southey (inscription, dated 1801, inside upper cover), British poet laureate and scholar and translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature.
Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1952 (note in Zacour-Hirsch placing this manuscript in the Gillet Collection may be an error).

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. 139 (Ms. Spanish 19).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 173.

Contributor:

Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, former owner.
Aguiar, Manoel de, 17th century.

OCLC:

155962742

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