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Title

Il Goffredo :

Authors

• Cesis Savelli, Francesco

Call number

Ms. Codex 277
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580889
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580889

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1653

Place

Italy

Summary

Text of a play, Il Goffredo, by Francesco Cesis Savelli.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and attribution from title page (f. 2r). Same title on spine label.
   
• The play was written in 1653 and was performed in Cotrone in June of that year (f. 2r). There is no specific indication of when this copy was made, but it appears to be contemporary with the date of the work.
   
• Inscription "Bartolo Marturani 1644 [sic!]" on f. 3r. The name Bartolo Martorano is given at the bottom of f. 2r and identified as "Padrone &."
   
• Bookseller's description in Italian pasted to recto of front endleaf.
   

Extent

116 leaves : 203 x 148 mm. bound to 205 x 158 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 116 + i (modern paper); 1-91, [i], 92-115; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (one folio was skipped, probably inadvertently). Irregular contemporary pagination and foliation, upper right recto of some leaves.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern parchment. Leaves stained and smudged. Evidence of repairs to corners of some leaves. Leaves appear to have been trimmed before being rebound (some of decorative filigree on f. 9r trimmed away). Some leaves fragile.

Decoration

Color illustration of Hercules (f. 3v) and the siege of a Turkish fort (f. 14r). Decorative filigree on other folios.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Moretti (cat. 208, no. 74), 1937.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian drama--To 1700
• Italian literature--17th century

Genres

• Codices
• Plays
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Decorated title page, f. 2r
• fol. 3v — Illustration, Hercules, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Decorated title, f. 4r
• fol. 9r — Decorated title, f. 9r
• fol. 14r — Illustration, Siege of Turkish fort, f. 14r
• fol. 15r — Decorated title, f. 15r
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 26v
• fol. 27r — Decorated title, f. 27r
• fol. 42r — Decorated title, f. 42r
• fol. 60v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 60v
• fol. 61r — Decorated title, f. 61r
• fol. 83r — Decorated title, f. 83r
• fol. 115v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 115v