Juan Alfonso Guerra y Sandoval: Poems

Scope and Content

'Ocios, que en los suyos, compuso, Dn. Juan Alfonso de Guerra y Sandoval', a collection of 219 autograph sonnets, decimas, romances, quintillas, redondillas and other verses, including deletions and corrections, preceded by a title page and table of contents.

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 Phillipps MS 2471 in his library. Purchased by the Library at Sotheby's, 16 June 1970.

Other Finding Aids

A catalogue of the collection can be found on ArchiveSearch.