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Manuscript copies of dramatic and prose writings and a letter, [ca. 1700].

BIB_ID
131793
Accession number
MA 280
Creator
Sacchetti, Giulio, 1587-1663.
Display Date
[ca. 1700].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (133 p.), bound ; 19.5 cm
Notes
It is unclear whether Sacchetti is the author of the poems and songs in this volume.
Provenance
Frederick William Cosens (bookplate); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Summary
Contains manuscript songs and poems in at least two different hands and a copy of a letter from Sacchetti to Pope Alexander VII dated June 17, 1663. Titles include: Rime sacre; Santa Genevieffa oratorio; Oratorio di Maria Stuarda; L'eta dell'oro; Il figlio prodigo oratorio; S. Nereo, ed Achilleo oratorio; and others.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (21.7 cm)