Details

Other Title:

Pastoreillos.

Subjects:

Christmas plays, Spanish.
Spanish drama -- 18th century.
Spanish drama.
Spanish literature -- 18th century.
Spanish literature.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Nativity play divided into three "jornadas," the birth of Our Lord and the Life of Our Lady (with some stage directions).

Notes:

Title from caption title (f. 1r); spine title: Los Pastoreillos (Gillet's title notation; Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern) + 115 + iii (modern); [1-115 (105-115 blank)], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in cursive script.
Binding: Modern library cloth.
Origin: Written in Spain in the 18th century.
Incipit of play: Le, Le, Le, Le / de decirlo acabaré / ... (f. 2r).
Many stains and smudges. Many leaves slightly frayed or torn at the edges.

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 20).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 177

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

155962770