Details

Other Title:

Alternate title: Estado astrologico

Subjects:

Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665 -- Portraits.
Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665.
Astrology -- Early works to 1800.
Astrology.
Kings and rulers.
Portugal -- Kings and rulers -- Early works to 1800.
Portugal.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Histories (literature genre)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Portuguese.
Manuscripts, European.
Portraits.

Language:

Portuguese, with the concluding Peroratio of the first version (f. 40r) and other occasional phrases in Latin.

Summary:

The first part of a four-part poem in octaves on the monarchy of Portugal, with allusions to astrology, alchemy, and cabala. The manuscript contains a copy of the edition printed in Lisbon in 1624 in 131 octaves, with its accompanying annotations on selected octaves, followed by another copy of the work, copied from an edition printed in Hamburg in 1644 in 133 octaves; 20 aphorisms of Bocarro from 1626; summaries of 3 documents (dated 1659, 1640, and 1668) related to Manoel Bocarro; and a list of dias aziagos (fateful days) for a particular year, date not given. The list of fateful days is probably from another manuscript, being written in different hand and foliated (f. 59), unlike the rest of this manuscript.

Contents:

1. f.1r-40r: Anaçephaleoses da mónarchia luzitana / pello Doctor Manoel Bocarro Frances
f.41r-73v: Anotaçoens sobre o primo Anacephaleoses da monarchia luzitana
f.76r-114r: Estado astrologico; Anaçephalosis primo da monarchia lusitana / pollo Doctor Manoel Bocarro Françes e Rozalles
f.115r-116v: Aforismos / do Doctor Manoel Bocarro
f.117r-117v: Suma de tres cartas de Doctor Manoel Bocarro scriptas a varias pessoas
f.119r-119v: Dias aziagos, que dis Bocáro há no anno.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r); alternate title Estado astrologico (the title of the first part of the whole work, and the only part published) from title page of second copy of text in manuscript (f. 75r).
Foliation: Paper, i + 120 + i; [1-69, i, 70-119], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Verse pages written in 20 lines; prose pages written in 22 lines.
Script: Written in cursive script, with an added leaf at the end in a different hand (f. 119r)
Decoration: Portrait in ink of Philip IV with French caption, Philippe 4e Roy d'Espagne, 1661, pasted in (f. 6r).
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf (Kestenbaum); gilt spine in compartments
Origin: Written in Portugal after 1668 (latest date in manuscript, f. 117v)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by antiquarian bookdealer and collector Alfonso Cassuto (Lisbon; bookplate inside upper cover; notes inside upper cover; embossed stamp on title page); purchased in 1978 or earlier (notes inside upper cover).
Sold by the Cassuto family in Portugal, 2014.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1646.

Contributor:

Cassuto, Alfonso, 1910-1990, former owner.
Alfonso Cassuto Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

889798578