Details

Subjects:

Spanish literature -- Early works to 1800.
Spanish poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Spanish poetry.
Spanish literature.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Poems.
Dialogues.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Spanish.

Summary:

Contains "sonetos, canciones, decimas, liras, tercetes y otros diversos versos" (f. [viii] recto) of Lupercio and Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola. There is an index of sonnets ("indice de sonetos") on f. [iii] recto-[x] verso, arranged alphabetically by first line. Poems on f. 1r-111r are the work of Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola; those on f. 112r-277v are the work of Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (cf. note, f. [xii] recto). Folios 278r-322v are blank. The four remaining works in the manuscript, all prose, are either expressly attributed to Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola or are probably by him: f. 323r-325r contain a dialogue between Mercury and Virtue, by Bartolomé, described as "Dialogo de Luziano" (i.e., it appears to be a translation of a dialogue by Lucian); f. 325v-343r contain a dialogue between Damegeto and Hypocrates, entitled "Democrito" and described as a "Dialogo de Filopatro [sic];" f. 343v-357r contain a dialogue between Menipo [= Menippus?] and Arsitas, entitled "Menipo litigante" and described as a "Dialogo de Philopatro [sic];" f. 359r-369v contain the text of a letter from Bartolomé, with the heading "Advertimientos a los Diputados del Reyno de Aragon, de las partes que ha de tener el perfeto Choron[is]ta." Folios 357v-358v and 370r-v are blank. Folios 371r-387r contain lists of aphorisms, with the headings "Aforismos de cartas españolas de A.P."; "Aforismos de las cartas latinas;" and "Aforismos de la carta q[ue] adelante les presento a todos." These might come from the works of the Argensolas, but there is no further indication. Folios 387v-391r are blank. Folios 391v-392v contains what appear to be more aphorisms or sayings, without any heading.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. [ii] recto).
Spine title: Argensola Obras.
Foliation: Paper, ii (modern paper) + 400 + i (modern paper); [x], 1-286, 288-389, 391-392 [i.e., there is no f. 390]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21-22 long lines.
Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.
Binding: 19th-century quarter calf, with marbled endpapers. Leather on spine cracking. Upper cover detached. Some folios show indications that the edges of the leaves were trimmed before the manuscript was bound (for example, some letters clipped off, f. 391-392).
Origin: Written in Spain in the 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Vicente Salvá y Pérez in the Biblioteca de Salvá (embossed seal, upper and lower covers).
Unidentified bookplate with interwoven "DRAH" (inside upper cover).

Cited in:

Described in Salvá y Pérez, Vicente. Catálogo de la biblioteca de Salvá (Valencia: Ferrer de Orga, 1872, Volume 1, p. 259-260 (no. 279).
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. 141-142 (Ms. Spanish 31).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 184.

Contributor:

Leonardo de Argensola, Bartolomé, 1562-1631.
Salvá y Pérez, Vicente, 1780-1849, former owner.

Contains:

Lucian, of Samosata. Dialogi. Selections. Spanish
Lucian, of Samosata. Menippus. Spanish.
Menipo litigante.
Democrito.
Advertimientos a los diputados del Reyno de Aragon, de las partes que ha de tener el perfeto Choron[is]ta.
Aforismos.

OCLC:

155962788

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