University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 188

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1447

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 188

Title:

Los Benavides : comedia original manuscrita /

Author:

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635

Lope de Vega WIKIDATA

Place:

Madrid

Madrid TGN

Date:

1600.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 56 leaves : paper ; 219 x 157 (195 x 75) mm

Former Owner(s):

Sessa, Luis Fernández de Córdoba Cardona y Aragón, duque de, 1582-1645

Luis Fernández de Córdoba y Aragón WIKIDATA

Geigy-Hagenbach, Karl

Carl Alphons Geigy-Hagenbach WIKIDATA

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Note:

Ms. codex.
This manuscript has 148 more lines than the first printed text, Parte II, Madrid, 1609. (See Reichenberger, A. "The Cast of Lope's Los Benavides." Homage to John Mill (Indiana University, 1968)).
Title and attribution taken from later paper wrapper. No overall title in the manuscript.
Foliation: [i], 1-17, [ii], 1-17, [ii], 1-17 (each quire separately foliated); contemporary Arabic numerals, upper right recto.
Binding: In three quires (each of the three acts in one quire). Not sewn; wrapped in later paper leaf.
Note at the end of the text of Act II: Benabides [sic] de Lope de Bega [sic]. 1607.
Lope appears to give the play the title "El primero Benavides" (cf. heading before the text of Act II: Del Prim[er]o Benavides Acto 2o).
Origin: Written in Madrid, 15 June 1600.
Acquired, 1961.
Duke of Sessa; Karl Geigy-Hagenbach (Zacour-Hirsch).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

autographs (manuscripts)

Plays (performing arts compositions)

Specimens

Manuscripts, Spanish

Drama

Codices

711-1516

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635

History

Benavides family

Spain

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915517693503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pn8xj61/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania