Basilici tyranni umbra, etc[between 1600 and 1700]latManuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rhetor, Euphemianus, Castor tribunus militum, and various pupilli and ephebi. With a collection of poems in Horatian meters on early Jesuits, e. g., St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Brother Rudolph Acquaviva (1550-83), St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-91), and Edmund Campion (d. 1581). Includes other miscellaneous textsIn Latin.Script: Written by several cursive hands, some clearly later additions. A few headings in square capitals.Binding: Eighteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled. Bookblock almost detached. Front pastedown may be part of art. 2 of text, but is too badly mutilated to be certain.