The cantiga e amigo (modern Portuguese and Galician spelling), or cantiga d'amigo (the spelling found in medieval Galician-Portuguese manuscripts), "song about a boyfriend", was a kind of lyric poetry which seems to be a native product of the northwest quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula. It is essentially female voiced love lyric. The earliest examples that survive are dated from roughly the 1220's, and nearly all 500 were composed before 1300. Cantigas d' amigo are found mainly in the Cancioneiro Colocci-Brancuti, now in Lisbon's Biblioteca Nacional, and in the Cancioneiro da Vaticana, both copied in Italy at the beginning of the 16th century (possibly around 1525) at the behest of the Italian humanist Angelo Colocci.