Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Il finto Policare, tragicomedia

Call number

Ms. Codex 901
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3432065
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3432065

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

Play in three acts with 14 scenes in each. Set in Messenia, the action centers on the return of Policare to claim his birthright from the tyrant Dorimaco, with a plot inspired by Herodotus' Histories.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   

Extent

53 leaves : 200 x 158 (162 x 125) mm. bound to 205 x 165 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 51 + ii (contemporary paper); [i, 1-49]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary marbled paper boards.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by The Athenaeum, Old and Rare Books (New York), 2002.
   

Subjects topical

• Italian drama--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Plays
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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