University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 193

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30273

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 193

Title:

Cancionero

Cancionero

Place:

Leon or Estremadura

León TGN

Extremadura TGN

Date:

1600?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Spanish, with 2 poems by Camões in Portuguese

Spanish WIKIDATA

Portuguese WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 191 leaves : paper ; 208 x 155 mm bound to 215 x 160 mm

Former Owner(s):

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch); attributions to Camões, León, Ledesma and Rosas de Oquendo taken from Sotheby's catalog and Zacour-Hirsch.
Foliation: Paper, 191; 2-192; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, except for poems added on the last leaves (f. 191-192).
Binding: Contemporary calf, with remains of leather ties; upper board broken; cover badly worn; evidence of worm damage. Inscriptions in ink on upper and lower covers and on spine obliterated through wear. First quire slightly loose. Piece missing from f. 2, causing some loss of text. Wormhole going through several leaves toward the front of the volume. Several leaves damaged and torn. Many...
Origin: Written in Leon or Estremadura, ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 4317 (spine label). Spine also bears an earlier label, "53".
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 26 June 1973.

Keyword:

anthologies

Poetry

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European

poems

Manuscripts, Spanish

Spanish literature--Classical period

Spanish poetry

1500-1700

Spanish poetry--Classical period

Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598

Spanish literature

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9915517813503681

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania