Scarfe-La Trobe Collection of Spanish Plays
Summary
The collection comprises nearly 2,000 items consisting of 1,068 plays (with 904 duplicates), ranging in date from the Seventeenth to the end of the Nineteenth Centuries. Representing a wide range of dramatic genres, a large proportion are comedias sueltas, that is, plays that were printed separately for sale in pamphlet form; a smaller number are desglosadas - plays printed to form part of (mainly) seventeenth century volumes; such volumes normally contained 12 plays, but they were also made available ‘disbound’ for sale as single items. In all, the work of more than 200 different dramatists is represented. Purchased from Bruno Scarfe, formerly of La Trobe University, in 2003 with help from the National Fund for Acquisitions, Glasgow University Chancellor’s Fund, the Friends of Glasgow University Library, the Faculty of Arts Library Discretionary Fund and the Principal’s Strategic Development Fund.
Format
Pamphlets.
Website
Scarfe-La Trobe Collection of Spanish Plays
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/scarfe.html
Contact
Special Collections
Email: special@lib.gla.ac.uk
Address
Glasgow University Library
Hillhead Street
Glasgow
G12 8QE
