La virtú trionfante : opera scenica dedicata all'altezza di madama serenissima Margarita Medici Farnese, duchessa di Parma
- Description
- Collection of opera scenica, in several hands with contemporary corrections. Virtú trionfante has the appearance of a prompt book.
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- drawings (visual works)
- prompt books
- Manuscripts, Italian
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1700
- Language
- Italian
- Subject
- Italian drama -- 17th century
- Opera -- Production and direction -- Early works to 1800
- Opera -- Production and direction
- Italian drama
- Extent
- 255 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 271 x 201 mm bound to 293 x 202 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Table of contents: 1. f.1r-59r: La virtú trionfante. -- 2. f.62r-124v: Peripecie del merito / Giorgio Ippolito Giorgi. -- 3. f.131r-189v: [Opera scenica without title, among main figures are Alcante, King of Catalonia; Ferrante, Count of Sessa, and Amelinda]. -- 4. f.191r-252r: [Opera scenica without title, among the main figures are Ermangard, Queen of Italy; Berengar, Anscar, etc.]
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Paper, 256; [1-256]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
- Script: Written in various cursive scripts by four different hands.
- Decoration: La virtú trionfante has pen-and-ink drawings of a tree (f. 17v) and a branch (f. 22v).
- Binding: Contemporary boards, nearly detached from spine; several folios completely detached. Fourth play badly stained and worn, with some folios tearing.
- Origin: Written in Italy, circa 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Italian.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 411
- Provenance
- Purchased, 1962.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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