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Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
Cologny
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Fondation Martin Bodmer
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
V-7.2
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Felix Lope de Vega y Carpi, Barlaán y Josafat, autograph
Caption:
Caption
Paper · 114 pp. · 15.9 x 21.5 cm · 1 February 1611
Language:
Language
Spanish
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
Felix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635), author of many comedias de santos, finished this Historia de Barlán y Josafat, comedia in three acts and in verse at home „En Madrid a primero de febrero de 1611.“ This complete manuscript contains numerous corrections and revisions by the author. This story of a conversion is more than an authentic Christian legend (then attributed to Saint John of Damascus) — it is above all a Christianized story. In the prince, who first gives up his palace in order to learn about the plagues of the world and then leaves his throne for the meditative life of an ascetic, one certainly recognizes Buddha. The edifying Christian story, set at the banks of the Ganges, is nothing other than an adaptation of Vie du Bodhisattva, a 2nd-4th century Sanskrit text, which over centuries was translated and adapted first by the Manichaeans, then by the Arabs, Georgians and Byzantines, until it finally reached the far distant people of the Western World: Lope de Vega’s work thus (without the author’s having been aware of this) is part of one of the most impressive chains of intellectual transmission in history. (duc)
DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-fmb-ms-Vega-V-007-002 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-fmb-ms-Vega-V-007-002)
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Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, V-7.2: Felix Lope de Vega y Carpi, Barlaán y Josafat, autograph (http://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/fmb/ms-Vega-V-007-002).
Online Since:
Online Since
12/17/2015
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Document Type:
Document Type
Autograph
Century:
Century
17th century
Dated:
Dated
1611
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Lope de Vega, Barlaán y Josafat, edición crítica de Daniele Crivellari, Madrid, Cátedra, 2021.

Daniele Crivellari, "Sobre un manuscrito autógrafo de Lope: Barlaán y Josafat", Revista de Literatura, vol. LXXVII, n. 153 (2015), pp. 75-91.

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