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

Title

Flavia

Authors

• Stefonio, Bernardino, 1560-1620

Other related names

• Fairbridge, W. E, former owner
• Sauer, Hans, 1866-1939, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1045
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3978015
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3978015

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin, with a prologue in Italian

Origin

Date

ca. 1620

Place

Italy

Summary

Historical tragedy in five acts about the Flavians and Christians in the Roman Empire. The action of the play is set at the end of the first century and the main characters are Domitian, Flavius Clemens, Apollonius of Tyana, and John the Evangelist. This tragedy was first performed in 1600 and originally published in Rome in 1621.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 3r).
   
• This is the same work as Titus Flavius et alii opera tragica manuscripta (Ms. Codex 924).
   

Extent

175 leaves : 103 x 66 mm. bound to 117 x 80 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 175 + i (contemporary paper) leaves; [xii], 1-10, [ii], 11-28, [29], 30-147, 147-162, 164-194, 196, 196-256, 256, 258-295, 293-312, 303-304, 315-331, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; page numbers in this record refer to the pagination in the text.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary calf, gold tooled with initials FC on front and back (Zacour-Hirsch); gauffered edges.

Layout

Written in 17-18 lines of varying length due to changing meter.

Script

Written in a cursive script.

Provenance

• Former owners include: W.E. Fairbridge (bookplate, inside upper cover); Hans Sauer (bookplate, p. i).
   
• Sold by H.A. Feisenberger (London), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Christianity and other religions--Roman
• Persecution--History--Early church, ca. 30-600--Drama
• Jesuit drama, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Emperors--Rome--Drama

Genres

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

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