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Proserpine, tragedie en musique : ornée d'entreés de ballet, de machines, & de changemens de theatre : representée devant Sa Majesté à Saint Germain en Laye : suivant la copie imprimée a Paris.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687.
- Standardized Title:
- Proserpine. Libretto
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Librettos--Early works to 1800.
- Operas.
- Operas--Librettos.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Librettos.
- Penn Provenance:
- Desportes, Narcisse-Henri-François, 1776-1856 (autograph) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 69 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Proserpine, tragedie
- Fingerprint:
- d.o- s.s. r.re &sMe (7) 1687 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- [Lyon?] : [publisher not identified], MDCLXXXVII [1687]
- 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 1687 edition, printed in Amsterdam and described in C.B. Schmidt, Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques (LLC 8-11), is identical.
- In prologue and five acts; music by Jean Baptiste Lully; libretto by Philippe Quinault after Ovid's Metamorphoses; first performed at court in St. Germain-en-Laye, 3 February 1680. Cf. Grove music online.
- Without the music.
- Error in pagination: p. 61 misnumbered 19.
- "Acteurs du prologue": p. 5-6; "Acteurs de la tragedie": p. 13-14; both include cast list.
- Engraved frontispiece illustration.
- Woodcuts: title page device; head- and tail-pieces; initial.
- Signatures: A-C¹².
- Leaf C12 blank.
- 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. Atys, tragedie en musique. [Lyon? : s.n., 1682?].
- OCLC:
- 730042036
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