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Title

Titus Flavius et alii opera tragica manuscripta

Authors

• Stefonio, Bernardino, 1560-1620

Other related names

• Ardillonius, scribe
• Colman, Francis, d. 1733, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 924
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942344003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182842360
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4234400

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1575 and 1599

Place

Italy

Summary

Historical tragedy in five acts centered on the consul Titus Flavius Clemens, his sons, the emperor Domitian, St. John the Evangelist, and Apollonius Thyanus, which features a conflict between Christianity and Roman pantheism; includes marginal annotations in a separate hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from spine of codex; author determined by comparison with another text of the same work under the title Flavia tragedia (Ms. Codex 1045).
   

Watermark

Contains elements similar to Croix Grecque 5457 (1580) and 5465 (1573); two examples of other watermarks similar to Aigle 207 (1573-76, f.3-4), Fleur de Lis 6956 (1549, f.1-2) and 7000 (1580, f.1-2).

Extent

136 leaves : 189 x 130 (150 x 67) mm. bound to 195 x 133 mm

Collation

Paper, 136; 1-2² 3-15⁸ 16⁸(-7) 17⁸ 18¹²(-1); modern pencil foliation 1-136 upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, pastedown on lower cover.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines.

Script

Written in the humanistic cursive hand of Ardillonius (signature f.135r); marginal annotations in a different humanistic cursive hand.

Provenance

• Owned by Francis Colman, 1703 (owner signature inside upper cover).
   
• Sold by H. W. Edwards (London), 1966.
   

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
• Annotations
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Paper
• Annotated
• History
• Literature -- Prose

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