Opera in four acts with music by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, and others.
Full score.
Reporduction of a copyist's manuscript.
Act I in v. 1; acts II-IV in v. 2; both volume covers have imprints.
New York is not listed in the imprint of v. 2.
The copyright dates on the covers are 1893 (Act I) and 1892 (Acts II-IV); the copyright date on the first page of music is 1893 on Acts I, II, and IV; Act III has no date.
The pages are numbered: 1-279, 280 (A)-280 (F), 280 (I), 281-541; blank; 542-725.
First edition, earliest known printing.
Inscription (in unidentified hand): E[dition]. O[riginale]. 2- tirage (cop. 1892 sur la couverture) (la couv. de le 1r acte provient d'un ex du 1- tirage corrigé) Cet exemplaire n'a pas été corrigé--c'est donc la version originale de l'orchestration -- Plus tard, cette orch. sera allegée par P. et les corrections portées à l'encre sur les ex.--p. 1.
With corrections and changes, including reorchestrations, throughout, and does not correspond to any other copy. For example, in Act II, a different version of p. 403-407 has been written out on loosely inserted pages, but the original p. 403-407 are present as well; the copy in the British Library has a photographic facsimile of a manuscript, but does not have the (cancelled) pages with the original version.
Oliva, Domenico, librettist.
Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.