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Varios papeles de poesias a diferentes asumptos compuestos por diversos ingenios

Contributor:
Philip IV, King of Spain, 1605-1665 (addressee)
Name:
Villamediana, Juan de Tarsis, conde de, 1582-1622; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635; Góngora y Argote, Luis de, 1561-1627
Timespan:
Classical period, 1500-1700; 18th century
Date:
1600
Description:
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.
Language:
Spanish; Castilian
Provenance:
Acquired from the estate of Joseph E. Gillet, 1958.; Gillet, Joseph E. 1888-1958, former owner.
Subject:
Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700; Spanish literature; Spanish literature -- Classical period; Spanish literature -- 18th century; Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700; Spanish poetry; Spanish poetry -- Classical period; Spanish poetry -- 18th century
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Codices; Poems; Satires (literary works); Sonnets; Manuscripts, Spanish; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)
Physical Description:
268 leaves : paper; 207 x 147 mm bound to 213 x 152 mm
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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.; Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 267 + i (contemporary paper); [1-267]; modern foliation in pencil. Irregular contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.; Script: Written in various cursive scripts by many hands.; 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; Origin: Written in Spain in the 17th and 18th centuries; unidentified stamp with the date 1722 (f. 148r) and caption title including a date in the 1720s (f. 157r).; Spanish, with one poem in Portuguese (f. 157r).
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 179