Details

Subjects:

Italian drama -- To 1700.
Italian drama.
Italian literature -- 17th century.
Italian literature.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Text of a play, Il Goffredo, by Francesco Cesis Savelli.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title and attribution from title page (f. 2r). Same title on spine label.
The play was written in 1653 and was performed in Cotrone in June of that year (f. 2r). There is no specific indication of when this copy was made, but it appears to be contemporary with the date of the work.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 116 + i (modern paper); 1-91, [i], 92-115; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (one folio was skipped, probably inadvertently). Irregular contemporary pagination and foliation, upper right recto of some leaves.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Color illustration of Hercules (f. 3v) and the siege of a Turkish fort (f. 14r). Decorative filigree on other folios.
Binding: Modern parchment. Leaves stained and smudged. Evidence of repairs to corners of some leaves. Leaves appear to have been trimmed before being rebound (some of decorative filigree on f. 9r trimmed away). Some leaves fragile.
Origin: Written in Italy, 1653 (f. 2r).
Inscription "Bartolo Marturani 1644 [sic!]" on f. 3r. The name Bartolo Martorano is given at the bottom of f. 2r and identified as "Padrone &."
Bookseller's description in Italian pasted to recto of front endleaf.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Moretti (cat. 208, no. 74), 1937.

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. 99 (Ms. Italian 35).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 277.

OCLC:

155964248