Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

El mas felíz cautiverio, y los sueños de Josef

Authors

• Mira de Amescua, Antonio, d. 1644

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Codex 178
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580592
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580592

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish, with a few lines in Catalan

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

Spain

Summary

Play concerning the story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. In three acts, with stage directions.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from heading (f. 2r).
   
• Attributed to Antonio Mira de Amescua in the 1792 printed edition.
   

Extent

70 leaves : 207 x 152 (202 x 70) mm. bound to 221 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 70; [1-70]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary boards, with remains of leather ties. Manuscript cover inscription: Comedia. El mas feliz cautive[r?]o y los sueños de Josef. Dia, 24. de Agosto, de M. VCCCXII [sic]. Cover worn and stained. Many leaves stained. Last two leaves very loose.

Script

Written in a cursive script by what appears to be more than one hand. Various signatures, pen trials, and notes in additional hands, including several lines of Catalan (inside upper pastedown).

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Plays (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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