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
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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)., and Binding: original (?) quarter cardboard binding, the spine in stained parchment.