Il Sensale, with the Intermezzi by Tommaso Soderini

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Title: Il Sensale, with the Intermezzi by Tommaso Soderini
Creator: Mercati, Francesco
Contributor: Soderini, Tommaso, 1403-1485.
Published / Created: [1551?]
Publication Place: Italy (Pisa?)
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: BEIN,GEN Beinecke MS 838: Mis-foliated; no folio 31.
In Italian.
Script: one scribe, writing a sloping cursive Humanistic script.
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.
Francesco Mercati da Bibbiena (s. XVI), Il Sensale. Commedia, in prose, with the musical Intermezzi dealing with the Ages of the World by Tommaso Soderini (s. XVI).
Binding: original (?) quarter cardboard binding, the spine in stained parchment.
Provenance: Purchased 1997 from Paolo Chiesa on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 60 [i.e., 59] : 205 x 160 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Mercati, Francesco.
Subject (Topic): Italian drama (Comedy).
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Mercati, Francesco
Italian drama (Comedy).
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Francesco Mercati, Il Sensale, with the Intermezzi by Tommaso Soderini. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.