Details

Subjects:

Italian drama -- 18th century.
Italian drama.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian poetry.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Play in verse in five acts without name, title, or attribution. Characters are Jefte, Custode, Figliuola, Moglie, Campagna, Paggi, Amante, Nuntio, Coro di [L?]onne, Coro di Soldati, Coro di Vergini.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Incipit: O che dolce mirar l'Alba (f. 3r).
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 22 + i (modern paper); [1-22]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, written over erased modern foliation, 62-83, in pencil.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the 18th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1964.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia). Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 3 (Ms. Italian 212).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 437

OCLC:

155969240