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Varios papeles de poesias a diferentes asumptos compuestos por diversos ingenios.

Publication:
[Spain], [1600-1799?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
268 leaves : paper ; 207 x 147 mm bound to 213 x 152 mm
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Subjects:
Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish literature.
Spanish literature -- Classical period.
Spanish literature -- 18th century.
Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700.
Spanish poetry.
Spanish poetry -- Classical period.
Spanish poetry -- 18th century.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Poems.
Satires (literary works)
Sonnets.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Spanish, with one poem in Portuguese (f. 157r).
Summary:
Collection of poems and verses. Begins with Decimas (3 ten-line verses, f. 1v) and Pintura de una dama (f. 2r-6r). Includes Pregunta fabio à Menandro; a poem whose title refers to the Inquisition (f. 67r-68r); Ignazio de Salazar, Poema eroico; Obras satiricas de Dn. Juan de Tarsis, conde de Villamediana (starting f. 167r); verses on the death of the conde de Villamediana by Luis de Gongora, together with a reply by Lope de Vega Carpio, using identical rhymes (f. 261r-262v); and many, many others, including many decimas or dezimas and sonetos or sonettos. A number of the poems are addressed to King Philip IV.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Spine title: Papeles varios.
Some leaves had at one time been folded and many have been trimmed with minor loss of text. One has the address of a Gomez de Medina (f. 147v). The name Gutierrez appears on the margins of several poems.
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 267 + i (contemporary paper); [1-267]; modern foliation in pencil. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many hands.
Binding: 18th-century calf with marbled endpapers. The leaves were cut before the volume was bound. On some folios, this has resulted in loss of text. Cover worn at hinges and edges; leather crumbling slightly. Some folios are worn and show indications of tears (especially along old folds), holes, and slight water damage
Origin: Written in Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries; unidentified stamp with the date 1722 (f. 148r) and caption title including a date in the 1720s (f. 157r).
Penn Provenance:
Acquired from the estate of Joseph E. Gillet, 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 22).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 179
Contributor:
Gillet, Joseph E. (Joseph Eugene), 1888-1958, former owner.
Contains:
Villamediana, Juan de Tarsis, conde de, 1582-1622.
Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635.
Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627.
Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665, addressee.
Papeles varios.
Pintura de una dama.
Pregunta fabio à Menandro.
OCLC:
155962775