[Opera buffa]

Timespan:

18th century

Date:

1700

Description:

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.

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Purchased, 1964.

Subject:

Italian drama -- 18th century; Italian drama; Italian poetry -- 18th century; Italian poetry

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); plays (performing arts compositions); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

22 leaves : paper; 200 x 138 mm bound to 204 x 140 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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).; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 437