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La virtú trionfante : opera scenica dedicata all'altezza di madama serenissima Margarita Medici Farnese, duchessa di Parma.

Publication:
[Italy], [circa 1700]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
255 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 271 x 201 mm bound to 293 x 202 mm
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Subjects:
Italian drama -- 17th century.
Opera -- Production and direction -- Early works to 1800.
Opera -- Production and direction.
Italian drama.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Drawings (visual works)
Prompt books.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
Summary:
Collection of opera scenica, in several hands with contemporary corrections. Virtú trionfante has the appearance of a prompt book.
Contents:
1. f.1r-59r: La virtú trionfante.
2. f.62r-124v: Peripecie del merito / Giorgio Ippolito Giorgi.
3. f.131r-189v: [Opera scenica without title, among main figures are Alcante, King of Catalonia; Ferrante, Count of Sessa, and Amelinda].
4. f.191r-252r: [Opera scenica without title, among the main figures are Ermangard, Queen of Italy; Berengar, Anscar, etc.]
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, 256; [1-256]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Script: Written in various cursive scripts by four different hands.
Decoration: La virtú trionfante has pen-and-ink drawings of a tree (f. 17v) and a branch (f. 22v).
Binding: Contemporary boards, nearly detached from spine; several folios completely detached. Fourth play badly stained and worn, with some folios tearing.
Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1962.
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. 129-130 (Ms. Italian 180).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 411
OCLC:
155968671