La Filis : obra heroica y tragica / de Antonio da Fonseca Soares.

Abstract:

Story of Phyllis (Filis) and Demophon, also told in Ovid's Heroides, in ten cantos in ottava rima (the eighth and tenth cantos are incomplete, with only 5 and 15 stanzas respectively). Each canto is prefaced by a sonnet by Padre Manoel de Aguiar, and one stanza of ottava rima summarizes each canto at the end of the volume (f. 145r-147r).

Creator:

Antonio das Chagas, Father, 1631-1682.

Date:

1800

Identifier:

9915805813503681; (OCoLC)ocn155962742; (OCoLC)155962742; (CStRLIN)PAUR94-A312; (PU)1580581-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Spanish; Castilian; Portuguese

Provenance:

Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1952 (note in Zacour-Hirsch placing this manuscript in the Gillet Collection may be an error).; Formerly owned by Robert Southey (inscription, dated 1801, inside upper cover), British poet laureate and scholar and translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature.

Publisher:

[circa 1800]

Subject:

Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700.; Spanish literature.; Mythology, Classical -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.; Spanish literature -- Classical period.; Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700.; Spanish poetry.; Spanish poetry -- Classical period.; Mythology, Classical.; Codices.; Poems.; Manuscripts, European.; Poetry.; Manuscripts, Spanish.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

147 leaves : paper; 198 x 142 mm bound to 208 x 145 mm

Personal Name:

Aguiar, Manoel de, 17th century.; Southey, Robert, 1774-1843, former owner.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Origin: Written circa 1800 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Binding: Contemporary calf; cover badly deteriorating, broken at both hinges, with front and back boards almost completely detached.; Layout: Main text written in ottava rima, usually with 3 stanzas to a page.; Foliation: Paper, i + 147; [1-147], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand, with a few corrections in the text (for example, f. 52r) and summaries and notes at the end in another hand; one of the 2 hands may be that of Robert Southey (later note in pencil, front flyleaf).; Text in Spanish, introductory material (f. 1r-3r) and concluding note (f. 147r) in Portuguese.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 173