Los Benavides : comedia original manuscrita

Name:

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635

Timespan:

711-1516

Date:

1600

Description:

Autograph manuscript copy of the play Los Benavides, by Lope de Vega Carpio, in the hand of the author. Play in three acts. The author's signature, together with the place and date, are on the verso of the last leaf (at the end of Act III). In the signature, the L of Lope is entwined with the M of Micaela. This monogram also appears at the end of Act II.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Provenance:

Duke of Sessa; Karl Geigy-Hagenbach (Zacour-Hirsch).; Acquired, 1961.; Sessa, Luis Fernández de Córdoba Cardona y Aragón, duque de, 1582-1645?, former owner.; Geigy-Hagenbach, Karl, former owner.

Subject:

Benavides family Drama; Benavides family; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635; History; Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635 Autographs Specimens

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

autographs (manuscripts); codices (bound manuscripts); plays (performing arts compositions); Manuscripts, Renaissance; drama (literary genre); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

56 leaves : paper; 219 x 157 (195 x 75) mm

Geographic Subject:

Spain; Spain -- History -- 711-1516 -- Drama

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title and attribution taken from later paper wrapper. No overall title in the manuscript.; Foliation: [i], 1-17, [ii], 1-17, [ii], 1-17 (each quire separately foliated); contemporary Arabic numerals, upper right recto.; Binding: In three quires (each of the three acts in one quire). Not sewn; wrapped in later paper leaf.; Origin: Written in Madrid, 15 June 1600.; Lope appears to give the play the title "El primero Benavides" (cf. heading before the text of Act II: Del Prim[er]o Benavides Acto 2o).; Note at the end of the text of Act II: Benabides [sic] de Lope de Bega [sic]. 1607.; This manuscript has 148 more lines than the first printed text, Parte II, Madrid, 1609. (See Reichenberger, A. "The Cast of Lope's Los Benavides." Homage to John Mill (Indiana University, 1968)).; Spanish.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 188