Notte sacra / di Gioseppe Castaldo.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Castaldo, Giuseppe.

Contributor:

Caravita, Domenico, scribe.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian drama--Early works to 1800.

Italian drama.

Italian literature--17th century.

Italian literature.

Religious drama, Italian.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

plays (performing arts compositions)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.

Physical Description:

111 leaves : paper ; 149 x 105 (105 x 70) mm bound to 151 x 110 mm

Production:

[Naples], 1645.

Other Title:

Qual può strana murania in questa Notte / Del gran' Censor' degl'anni.

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

Notte sacra, a drama in five acts, written by Giuseppe Castaldo in 1645.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and attribution from title page (f. 3r).

Incipit: Qual può strana murania in questa Notte / Del gran' Censor' degl'anni / ... (f. 5r).

Bears an imprimatur and two seal stamps (f. 1r, 111v).

Foliation: Paper, 111; [1-111]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in an italic script in the hand of Domenico Caravita, with notes in several additional hands (for example, f. 1r, 2r).

Binding: Contemporary parchment. Cover pulling loose, especially at inside upper hinge. Cover worn, especially at edges and hinges. Many stains and smudges. Edges of some leaves frayed. A few leaves show evidence of repairs.

Origin: Written in Naples in 1645 (f. 3r).

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. 105 (Ms. Italian 65).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 307

OCLC:

155964316