Details

Subjects:

Joseph (Son of Jacob) -- Drama.
Joseph (Son of Jacob).
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.
Drama.

Language:

Spanish, with a few lines in Catalan.

Summary:

Play concerning the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. In three acts, with stage directions.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from heading (f. 2r).
Attributed to Antonio Mira de Amescua in the 1792 printed edition.
Foliation: Paper, 70; [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be more than one hand. Various signatures, pen trials, and notes in additional hands, including several lines of Catalan (inside upper pastedown).
Binding: Contemporary boards, with remains of leather ties. Manuscript cover inscription: Comedia. El mas feliz cautive[r?]o y los sueños de Josef. Dia, 24. de Agosto, de M. VCCCXII [sic]. Cover worn and stained. Many leaves stained. Last two leaves very loose.
Origin: Written in Spain, probably in the 18th century. Date on cover, 24 August 1812, probably refers to the date of a performance.

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. 140 (Ms. Spanish 21).
A similar manuscript of the same comedy is described in: Madrid, Bibl. nac., Catálogo de las piezas de teatro (Madrid, 1934), I, no. 2253

Publications about:

El más felíz cautiverio, y los sueños de Josef : representada en los teatros de esta corte por la Companĩa de Ribera. Madrid: Se hallará en la Librería de Quiroga, calle de la Concepción, 1792.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 178

Contributor:

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

Contains:

Comedia. El mas felíz cautiverio y los sueños de Josef.
Mas feliz cautivero y los sueños de Josef.

OCLC:

155962772