running head ☜☞ titulillo


Nearly all sueltas have a running head above the two columns of text of the plays. Most often it gives the name of the author and the title on alternate pages. If the title is long, and it appears in facing pages, it is called  running title. Running heads or running titles always start on the verso of the first leaf and follow a variety of patterns—sometimes the author's name repeats on each verso and the title appears on the rectos, at other times it is the reverse. The font used is most often the same as the rest of the text, but there are instances where the type used in the running header is larger and more decorative.

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  • In his play, Entre el honor y el amor, el honor es lo primero, Francisco de Leiva espouses the notion that honor is a higher good than love. The running header repeats the two halves of the title on facing pages, that is except on page 5(?) where we read “el amor es lo primero.” This example could have been used under the discussion for the term “state” if we were to find copies in which the erratum had been corrected. So far none has been found. But it is a case of “state.” A state of confusion, a state of youth and spring fever, or a case of slight inebriation not uncommon among printers.
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