Details

Subjects:

Italian drama -- 18th century.
Italian drama.
Italian literature -- 18th century.
Italian literature.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of five dramatic works.

Contents:

1. p.3-7: La disputa.
2. p.7-12: Il puttanezzo.
3. p.12-18: La fabrica.
4. p.18-34: Il duello.
5. p.34-69: Le libidini.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (p. 1).
Pagination: Paper, i (modern paper) + 36 + i (modern paper) leaves; [1-72]; modern pagination in pencil, lower outer corners; 1-10, 35-46, 95-139, irregular contemporary pagination, upper outer corners. Contemporary pagination corresponds with table of contents (p. 2). References in this record are to modern pagination.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1972.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement B, The Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 18 (Ms. Italian 259).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 481

OCLC:

155964992