Atys, tragedie en musique : ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changements de theatre : suivant la copie, imprimée a Paris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687.

Contributor:

Quinault, Philippe, 1635-1688.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Atys. Libretto

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Operas--Librettos--Early works to 1800.

Operas.

Attis (Phrygian deity)--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Attis.

Attis (Phrygian deity).

Operas--Librettos.

Genre:

Drama.

Librettos.

Penn Provenance:

Desportes, Narcisse-Henri-François, 1776-1856 (autograph) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

70 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

Atys, tragedie

Fingerprint:

y.e, s,*- e;x, VoSA (7) 1682 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Lyon?] : [publisher not identified], [1682?]

Notes:

Probably a pirate edition printed in Lyon. The armillary sphere device on the title page (not described in Rahir) is found in other Lyonnaise surreptitious publications (cf. G. Parguez, "Essai sur l'origine lyonnaise d'éditions clandestines de la fin du XVIIe siècle" (plate [IV], fig. 1), in Nouvelles études lyonnaises (Genève : Librairie Droz, 1969)). Another 1682 edition, printed in Amsterdam and described in C.B. Schmidt, Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques (LLC 4-11.1), is identical but for the frontispiece, signed "A. Schoonenbeeck" in the Amsterdam edition but unsigned in the Lyon counterfeit.

Date on title page, printed in Roman numerals with turned "C"s, is misprinted.

In five acts with prologue; music by Jean Baptiste Lully, libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid, Fasti; first performed at Saint Germain-en-Laye, 10 January 1676; revived there 7 January 1682. Cf. Grove music online; CÉSAR online.

Without the music.

Engraved frontispiece illustration of Act III, Scene 3.

Woodcuts: title page device; head- and tail-pieces; initial.

"Acteurs du prologue": p. 3-4; "Acteurs de la tragedie": p. 9-10; both include cast list.

Signatures: A-C¹².

Leaf C12 is half-title leaf, probably intended to be bound before the frontispiece.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the ownership label of "N. Desportes", i.e. Narcisse-Henri-François Desportes, completed in ms., affixed to the front paste-down endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Lully, Jean Baptiste. Isis, tragedie en musique. [Lyon? : s.n.], MDCLXXXVII [1687] -- Lully, Jean Baptiste. Bellerophon tragedie. [Lyon? : s.n.], MDCLXXXVII [1687] -- Lully, Jean Baptiste. Proserpine, tragedie en musique. [Lyon? : s.n.], MDCLXXXVII [1687] -- Lully, Jean Baptiste. Le triomphe de l'amour, ballet. [Lyon? : s.n.], MDCLXXXVII [1687].

Related Work:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Fasti.

OCLC:

730041473