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Title

Poesias y obras

Authors

• Hurtado de Mendoza, Diego, 1503-1575

Call number

Ms. Codex 70
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915517863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122638172
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551786

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Spanish

Origin

Date

ca. 1600

Place

Spain

Summary

Collection of works by Hurtado de Mendoza. Mostly verse, including numerous sonnets, with a short section of prose at the end (p. 190-219) consisting of a fictional exchange of letters between Captain Salazar (Salaçar) and Señor Bachiller and other letters under his own name. Marginal notes in another hand in the prose section.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine.
   

Extent

225 leaves : 200 x 145 (178 x 69) mm. bound to 209 x 152 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 217 + iii (contemporary paper); 1-35, 38, 37, 39-153, 155-156, 154, 159, 157, 158, 160-167, 169-219; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum. Generally sturdy and in good shape, with secure binding. Paper in generally good shape, though the ink appears to be acidic; on many pages the text is difficult to read because the ink has oxidized and the text on the reverse side of the leaf is showing through.

Script

Written in an italic script by a single hand, with a few marginal and interlinear notes in one or more hands different from and probably later than the text.

Provenance

• Appears in Maggs Bros. cat. 495 (1927), no. 480; sold by Maggs Bros., 1929.
   
• Formerly in the Macauley Library, University of Pennsylvania (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• 17th century
• Literature -- Prose
• Spanish
• Spain
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry

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