Details

Subjects:

Italian drama -- 18th century.
Italian drama.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Play in three acts with 14 scenes in each. Set in Messenia, the action centers on the return of Policare to claim his birthright from the tyrant Dorimaco, with a plot inspired by Herodotus' Histories.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. i recto).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 51 + ii (contemporary paper); [i, 1-49]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Binding: Contemporary marbled paper boards.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by The Athenaeum, Old and Rare Books (New York), 2002.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 901

OCLC:

155925194