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

Title

Cancionero

Authors

• Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580
• León, Luis de, 1527-1591
• Ledesma, Pedro de
• Rosas de Oquendo, Mateo, b. 1559

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 193
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1551781
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551781

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Spanish, with 2 poems by Camões in Portuguese

Origin

Date

ca. 1600

Place

Leon or Estremadura

Summary

Collection of 205 poems, including five repeats, mostly by unnamed authors. Includes two poems by Luis de Camões (f. 45v-46v) and others by Luis de León, Fray Pedro de Ledesma and Mateo Rosas de Oquendo. A sonnet concerning the death of a king (f. 68v) probably refers to Philip II. Also includes medical recipes (f. 11v-12r) and a partial index (f. 43r).

Notes

• 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.
   

Extent

191 leaves : 208 x 155 mm. bound to 215 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, 191; 2-192; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

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 stains and smudges.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, except for poems added on the last leaves (f. 191-192).

Provenance

• 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.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Spanish--16th century
• Manuscripts, Spanish--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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