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Title

Varios papeles de poesias a diferentes asumptos compuestos por diversos ingenios

Authors

• Villamediana, Juan de Tarsis, conde de, 1580-1622
• Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635
• Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627

Other related names

• Gillet, Joseph E. b. 1888, former owner
• Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 179
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580593
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580593

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish, with one poem in Portuguese (f. 157r)

Origin

Date

ca. 1600-1799

Place

Spain

Summary

Collection of poems and verses. Begins with Decimas (3 ten-line verses, f. 1v) and Pintura de una dama (f. 2r-6r). Includes Pregunta fabio à Menandro; a poem whose title refers to the Inquisition (f. 67r-68r); Ignazio de Salazar, Poema eroico; Obras satiricas de Dn. Juan de Tarsis, conde de Villamediana (starting f. 167r); verses on the death of the conde de Villamediana by Luis de Gongora, together with a reply by Lope de Vega Carpio, using identical rhymes (f. 261r-262v); and many, many others, including many decimas or dezimas and sonetos or sonettos. A number of the poems are addressed to King Philip IV.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Spine title: Papeles varios.
   
• Some leaves had at one time been folded and many have been trimmed with minor loss of text. One has the address of a Gomez de Medina (f. 147v). The name Gutierrez appears on the margins of several poems.
   

Extent

268 leaves : 207 x 147 mm. bound to 213 x 152 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 267 + i (contemporary paper); [1-267]; modern foliation in pencil. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century calf with marbled endpapers. The leaves were cut before the volume was bound. On some folios, this has resulted in loss of text. Cover worn at hinges and edges; leather crumbling slightly. Some folios are worn and show indications of tears (especially along old folds), holes, and slight water damage

Script

Written in various cursive scripts by many hands.

Provenance

• Acquired from the estate of Joseph E. Gillet, 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700
• Spanish literature--18th century
• Spanish poetry--Classical period, 1500-1700
• Spanish poetry--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Satires
• Sonnets
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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