Details

Other Title:

Qual può strana murania in questa Notte / Del gran' Censor' degl'anni.

Subjects:

Italian drama -- Early works to 1800.
Italian literature -- 17th century.
Italian literature.
Religious drama, Italian.
Italian drama.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Plays (performing arts compositions)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Notte sacra, a drama in five acts, written by Giuseppe Castaldo in 1645.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (f. 3r).
Incipit: Qual può strana murania in questa Notte / Del gran' Censor' degl'anni / ... (f. 5r).
Bears an imprimatur and two seal stamps (f. 1r, 111v).
Foliation: Paper, 111; [1-111]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Domenico Caravita, with notes in several additional hands (for example, f. 1r, 2r).
Binding: Contemporary parchment. Cover pulling loose, especially at inside upper hinge. Cover worn, especially at edges and hinges. Many stains and smudges. Edges of some leaves frayed. A few leaves show evidence of repairs.
Origin: Written in Naples in 1645 (f. 3r).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 105 (Ms. Italian 65).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 307

Contributor:

Caravita, Domenico, scribe.

OCLC:

155964316