Poesias serias y morales

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.7946
  • Dates of Creation
      1703 (circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 collection

Scope and Content

A collection of sixty-nine poetical manuscripts bound into one volume. The documents are mainly concerned with Sancho Dvila y Osorio (d. 1689), Marqus de Astorga, de Velada y de San Roman, who became Viceroy of Valencia in 1664, and later Viceroy of Naples and Mayordomo mayor, and with his father, Antonio Dvila y Toldeo (1590-1666), Marqus de Velada, Governor and Captain-General of Milan. One of the poems is in the former's hand.

Access Information

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

The volume was purchased from the bookseller Thomas Thorpe by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and became MS 2405 in his library. It was part of the sale of his collection at Sotheby's on 26 June 1973 where it was bought by the Library.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.

Related Material

Cambridge University Library holds a volume of poems, MS.Add.7939, which was probably owned by Antonio Pedro Sancho Dvila y Osorio, and includes a poem about him.