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Other Title:

Nacimiento del Niño Jesus.
Pastores.
Pastorets.
En Belen puerta del sol / Unos Pastores alegres / en Vista del buen suseso / se dieron la noche buena.
Pastorcillos.

Subjects:

Christmas plays, 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.

Language:

Castilian (Spanish), with stage directions in Catalan.

Summary:

Christmas pageant, with dramatis personae (f. 130r), lists of exits, etc.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading (f. i verso). Heading also gives alternate title Los Pastores; colophon (f. 129v) gives title as Nacimiento del Niño Jesus and alternate title as Los Pastorets.
Incipit of the play: En Belen puerta del sol / Unos Pastores alegres / en Vista del buen suseso / se dieron la noche buena. ... (f. 1r).
Miscellaneous notes and pen trials on f. i recto.
Foliation: Paper, 140; [i], 1-129, [x]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. There are indications of at least two leaves missing at the beginning and two at the end; they appear to have been torn out.
Script: Written in a cursive script by several hands.
Binding: Pasteboards, possibly contemporary. There are traces of a sketch in ink, the title Pastorcillos in ink, and a possible shelf mark (2442) in pencil on the upper cover. Binding is loose in places; last quire is particularly loose. Cover badly worn, especially at corners and edges; upper portion of spine lacking. Many stains and smudges. A few leaves have holes, tears and frayed edges.
Origin: Written in Spain, probably in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Joseph E. Gillet; purchased from his estate, 1958.

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 18).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 176.

Contributor:

Gillet, Joseph E. (Joseph Eugene), 1888-1958, former owner.

OCLC:

155962768

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