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Title

La Filis

Authors

• Antonio das Chagas, Father, 1631-1682
• Aguiar, Manoel de, 17th cent

Other related names

• Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 173
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580581
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580581

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Text in Spanish, introductory material (f. 1r-3r) and concluding note (f. 147r) in Portuguese

Origin

Date

circa 1800

Summary

Story of Phyllis (Filis) and Demophon, also told in Ovid's Heroides, in ten cantos in ottava rima (the eighth and tenth cantos are incomplete, with only 5 and 15 stanzas respectively). Each canto is prefaced by a sonnet by Padre Manoel de Aguiar, and one stanza of ottava rima summarizes each canto at the end of the volume (f. 145r-147r).

Notes

• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   

Extent

147 leaves : 198 x 142 mm. bound to 208 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 147; [1-147], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf; cover badly deteriorating, broken at both hinges, with front and back boards almost completely detached.

Layout

Main text written in ottava rima, usually with 3 stanzas to a page.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in the text (for example, f. 52r) and summaries and notes at the end in another hand; one of the 2 hands may be that of Robert Southey (later note in pencil, front flyleaf).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Robert Southey (inscription, dated 1801, inside upper cover), British poet laureate and scholar and translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature.
   
• Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1952 (note in Zacour-Hirsch placing this manuscript in the Gillet Collection may be an error).
   

Subjects topical

• Mythology, Classical--Poetry--Early works to 1800
• Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700
• Spanish poetry--Classical period, 1500-1700

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Introductory poems, list of cantos, f. 1r
• fol. 5r — El naufragio, f. 5r
• fol. 21r — Las ruinas, f. 21r
• fol. 35r — Los affectos, f. 35r
• fol. 54r — Las selvas, f. 54r
• fol. 71r — Los zelos, f. 71r
• fol. 93r — La soledad, f. 93r
• fol. 104r — Las lagrimas, f. 104r
• fol. 120r — Las armas, f. 120r
• fol. 123r — Los extremos, f. 123r
• fol. 141r — Los suspiros [incomplete], f. 141r
• fol. 145r — Argumentos dos cantos deste poema da Filis, f. 145r