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Title

Bianca :

Authors

• Shepherd, R. 1732?-1809

Call number

Ms. Codex 2169
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978138210103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1424816892
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366213

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

after 1772

Place

England?

Summary

18th-century copy of the tragedy Bianca, which was published in 1772. In the play, written in iambic pentameter and arranged in five acts, Don Balthasar attempts to force the noblewoman Bianca to marry him although she is already betrothed to Don Sebastian, and all three die in the final scene.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   

Extent

52 leaves : 220 x 135 mm bound to 225 x 145 mm

Foliation

Paper, 52 leaves; original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners, [i-ii, 1], 2-93, [94-102]. Collation is unclear.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (18th-century) calf, simple gilt-tooling, with damaged spine and cracked joints (Alastor).

Layout

Written in 28-31 long lines; quarto format.

Script

Written in cursive script (text) and humanist roman script (paratext).

Provenance

• Sold by Alastor Rare Books Ltd. (Lymington, England), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• English drama--18th century
• English literature--18th century

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Tragedies (Drama)
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• England
• Accordion book
• Paper
• Literature -- Poetry

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