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Lucile, comedie, en un acte, melée d'ariettes : representée pour Ia première fois par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy le 5 janvier 1769 : manuscript.

BIB_ID
432516
Accession number
MA 23403
Creator
Grétry, André-Ernest-Modeste, 1741-1813, composer.
Display Date
France, 1770.
Credit line
Donated by Mrs. Jayne Wrightsman in honor of Mrs. Annette de la Renta.
Description
1 item (93 pages), bound ; 20.4 x 16.2 cm
Notes
Title from title page.
Monogram of Jean-François Marmontel on title page at lower right, followed by "delineavit, fecit, en l'an A.D. 1770".
"Copiee à Marseille[?] en l'an 1770 par ...."--Half-title page.
Written in black and red ink.
Provenance
Bookplate of Henri Beraldi; Jayne Wrightsman (1919-2019), New York.
Summary
Manuscript with text and music of André Grétry's comic opera "Lucile", with a libretto by Jean-François Marmontel and evidently copied in his hand, including half title-page, title-page, and cast list.