University of Chicago, Codex Ms. 64

Metadata

DS ID:

DS16686

Shelfmark:

Codex Ms. 64

Title:

Libro nombrado memorial de martires de Hespaña

Sonnets

Author:

Salgado Correa, Alejo, active 1550-1585

Alejo Salgado Correa WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

ca. 1585

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Spanish

Spanish WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 volume (388 leaves) : paper ; 23 x 17 cm

Note:

Collation: foliated viii, 239, 140, [1].
Binding: Stamped leather over wooden boards, back cover cracked, with two metal clasps, decorated with gilt double-headed eagles and the initial "S" with a crown over it.
Fair copy in written in one hand, possibly the author's. Each page contains one complete 16-line poem, with a caption title and marginal notes. Contains dedication, preface, and pious prefatory "sonnets"; also an index at the end of each part, and a plate at the beginning of each of the two parts with an engraving of Jesus Christ and the legend "Ihesus Christus Filius Dei Vivi Salvator Mundi...
Purchased by the University of Chicago in 1891 from S. Calvary & Co. of Berlin.

Keyword:

Sonnets

Early works

Christian martyrs

Manuscripts, Spanish

Illinois--Chicago

Poetry

Institutional Record:

http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2668564

Holding Institution:

University of Chicago