Details

Subjects:

Religious drama, Spanish.
Spanish drama -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish drama.
Spanish drama -- Classical period.
Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish literature.
Spanish literature -- Classical period.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Plays (document genre)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Biography/History:

Spanish.

Summary:

Collection of three religious plays by Calderon.

Contents:

1. f.1r-50v: Loa; para el auto, intitulado La serpiente de metal.
2. f.51r-81v: Auto sacramental alegorico: A dios por varon de estado.
3. f.82r-122r: Auto sacramental alegorico intitulado: A tu proximo como a ti mismo.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from spine. Zacour-Hirsch uses the title of the first work as the overall title.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 122 + i (contemporary paper); [1-122]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script in what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Endleaves torn. Stains on cover. Top and bottom edges of leaves slightly worn.
Origin: Written in Spain in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hugo Albert 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. 142 (Ms. Spanish 33).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 170

Contains:

Loa; para el auto, intitulado La serpiente de metal.
Serpiente de metal.
A dios por varon de estado.
A tu proximo como a ti mismo.

OCLC:

155962744