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Titus Flavius et alii opera tragica manuscripta.
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Stefonio, Bernardino, 1560-1620.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Flavian family--Drama.
- Flavian family.
- Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 51-96--Drama.
- Domitian.
- Apollonius, of Tyana.
- Apollonius.
- John, the Apostle, Saint.
- John.
- Domitian, Emperor of Rome, 51-96.
- Christianity and other religions--Roman.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Drama.
- Persecution.
- Jesuit drama, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Emperors--Rome--Drama.
- Emperors.
- History.
- Persecution--Early church.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- plays (performing arts compositions)
- tragedies
- annotations
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Owned by Francis Colman, 1703 (owner signature inside upper cover).
- Sold by H. W. Edwards (London), 1966.
- Physical Description:
- 136 leaves : paper ; 189 x 130 (150 x 67) mm bound to 195 x 133 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Italy], [between 1575 and 1599]
- Language Note:
- Latin.
- Summary:
- Historical tragedy in five acts centered on the consul Titus Flavius Clemens, his sons, the emperor Domitian, St. John the Evangelist, and Apollonius Thyanus, which features a conflict between Christianity and Roman pantheism; includes marginal annotations in a separate hand.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from spine of codex; author determined by comparison with another text of the same work under the title Flavia tragedia (Ms. Codex 1045).
- Collation: Paper, 136; 1-2² 3-15⁸ 16⁸(-7) 17⁸ 18¹²(-1); modern pencil foliation 1-136 upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 22 long lines.
- Script: Written in the humanistic cursive hand of Ardillonius (signature f.135r); marginal annotations in a different humanistic cursive hand.
- Watermark: Contains elements similar to Croix Grecque 5457 (1580) and 5465 (1573); two examples of other watermarks similar to Aigle 207 (1573-76, f.3-4), Fleur de Lis 6956 (1549, f.1-2) and 7000 (1580, f.1-2).
- Decoration: Pen flourishes at the end of each act.
- Binding: Contemporary vellum, pastedown on lower cover.
- Origin: Written in Italy in the late 16th century.
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 11 (Ms. Latin 224).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 924
- OCLC:
- 182842373
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