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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 437
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italian drama--18th century.
- Italian drama.
- Italian poetry--18th century.
- Italian poetry.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- plays (performing arts compositions)
- Manuscripts, Italian.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased, 1964.
- Physical Description:
- 22 leaves : paper ; 200 x 138 mm bound to 204 x 140 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1700 and 1799]
- Language Note:
- 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).
- 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
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