- Creator:
- Bettini, Michele
- Published / Created:
- [between 1563 and 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 845
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Michele Bettini (Sixteenth century), Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso. The unrecorded author was warden of the "Company of the Evangelist" in Rome, which used to stage edifying plays. The present play in verse (the Prologue only is in prose) was performed in1541 and in 1563. It deals with charity.
- Description:
- Binding: Contemporary paper cover, which is too small for the manuscript., Original foliation in Roman numerals. Corners and edges defective; the leaves waterstained., and Script: Copied by one hand in a careful Humanistica Libraria/Formata under Gothic influence.
- Subject (Name):
- Bettini, Michele
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian drama, Italian, Italian drama (Comedy), Italian poetry--16th century, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commedia ovvero storia del Crocefisso
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1500 and 1590]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 874
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of a treatise in the form of a Prologue to a comedy by an unknown member of a newly founded Tuscan Academy.
- Description:
- Script: Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva; the first word of the centered title in Capitalis. and The original foliation shows that the present treatise is only a small part of a codex of unusually large size, the content of which is unknown.
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Discorso sopra il cognoscere se stesso
- Creator:
- Donzellini, Alessandro
- Published / Created:
- 1572
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 844
- Image Count:
- 218
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, a comedy in Italian by Alessandro Donzellini.
- Description:
- Binding: limp parchment binding., Comedy in Italian about the love affairs of various young men and women, with a complicated plot, changes of names, disguises, etc. Donzelli's work was printed in 1585 in Florence by Bartolomeo Sermartelli, but the present version, dated thirteen years earlier and purportedly by an “Afflitto Accademico Stordito” (an Accademia degli Storditi existed in Bologna in the sixteenth century), differs in many respects from the printed text., and Script: copied, probably by one hand, in Humanistica Cursiva in various degrees of rapidity.
- Subject (Name):
- Donzellini, Alessandro
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Gl'Oltraggi d'amore e di fortuna, Comedia nuova Dell'Acceso Accademico Stordito
- Creator:
- Mercati, Francesco
Soderini, Tommaso, 1403-1485 - Published / Created:
- [1551?].
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 838
- Image Count:
- 126
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Francesco Mercati da Bibbiena, Il Sensale. Commedia, with the musical Intermezzi dealing with the Ages of the World by Tommaso Soderini. With a survey of the characters of the play.
- Description:
- Binding: original (?) quarter cardboard binding, the spine in stained parchment., Mis-foliated; no folio 31., Script: one scribe, writing a sloping cursive Humanistic script., and Some outer or upper margins (ff. 12, 27), and on f. 1 the outer lower corner, are defective, causing the loss of small text parts. The leaves are stained (ff. 20-21 especially), and the paper is badly damaged by the corrosive ink.
- Subject (Name):
- Mercati, Francesco
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Il Sensale, with the Intermezzi by Tommaso Soderini
- Creator:
- Succi, Baldassarre
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1600]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 871
- Image Count:
- 159
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Baldassarre Succi, La leale amante: Comedia villanescha, con intermedii apparenti.
- Description:
- ff. 76-95 blank, not digitized.
- Subject (Name):
- Succi, Baldassarre
- Subject (Topic):
- Italian drama (Comedy), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > La leale amante