On some Spanish poetic manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Phillippica now in Cambridge University Library

A group of Golden Age Spanish literary manuscripts, among them several poetic collections or cancioneros, was acquired by Cambridge University Library at a Bibliotheca Phillippica auction in 1970. A summary list of these is provided, together with lists of other similar MSS acquired at auction in 1973 and by bequest from the library of E. M. Wilson (d. 1977). In the light of some recent studies referring to the 1970 acquisitions, consideration is given to desiderata in scholarly reference to manuscripts formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872).