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Title

Naxament del Niño Jesus

Other related names

• Gillet, Joseph E. b. 1888, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 176
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580590
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580590

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Castilian (Spanish), with stage directions in Catalan

Origin

Place

Spain, 16--?

Summary

Christmas pageant, with dramatis personae (f. 130r), lists of exits, etc.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading (f. i verso). Heading also gives alternate title Los Pastores; colophon (f. 129v) gives title as Nacimiento del Niño Jesus and alternate title as Los Pastorets.
   
• Incipit of the play: En Belen puerta del sol / Unos Pastores alegres / en Vista del buen suseso / se dieron la noche buena. ... (f. 1r).
   
• Miscellaneous notes and pen trials on f. i recto.
   

Extent

140 leaves : 151 x 105 mm. bound to 158 x 111 mm

Foliation

Paper, 140; [i], 1-129, [x]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. There are indications of at least two leaves missing at the beginning and two at the end; they appear to have been torn out.

Support

Paper

Binding

Pasteboards, possibly contemporary. There are traces of a sketch in ink, the title Pastorcillos in ink, and a possible shelf mark (2442) in pencil on the upper cover. Binding is loose in places; last quire is particularly loose. Cover badly worn, especially at corners and edges; upper portion of spine lacking. Many stains and smudges. A few leaves have holes, tears and frayed edges.

Script

Written in a cursive script by several hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Joseph E. Gillet; purchased from his estate, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Christmas plays, Spanish
• Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700
• Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700

Genres

• Codices
• Plays (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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