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1. Add MS 74781 A-K

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Plays from Babenhausen; 1620-1660, early 18th cent. German. Eleven plays from Babenhausen, near Memmingen in Swabia, all unpublished but apparently performed. Many of the texts include cast lists by name and details of original staging, as well as settings, costumes, and the music required. One, possibly unique, consists entirely of 'sides' (scripts of actors' parts with cues) for memorisation by the players. The texts derive from a vernacular theatrical tradition flourishing during the 17th...
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includes: A-K Drama GERMAN: Babenhausen, Swabia: Plays from Babenhausen: 1620-1660, early 18th cent.: Germ.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1620-1740
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1 item

2. Add MS 74781 H

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Untitled prose comedy in two acts, which involves the stock comic characters of Pickeljering and Jodl; [mid 17th cent?]. Label with earlier shelf-mark 30J laid down on front cover (f. i), pencil annotations H118 and 6636 (crossed through) on pastedown to upper cover (f. ii) and earlier shelf-mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[Mid 17th century?]
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 74781 G

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Prose play in three acts, based on a heavily fictionalised version of events surrounding the 'Sicilian Vespers' of 1282, in which the Sicilians revolted against Angevin domination; [early 17th cent?]. Earlier shelf-marks xxx-a- 44 and 50J (the latter crossed through) on title page (f. 1). Includ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[Early 17th century?]
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1 item

4. Add MS 74781 C-F

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Four 'history' plays in the same hand and in similar covers, each with cast lists at the end, either 'Nomina actorum' listing parts followed by players' names and / or 'Syllabus Actorum' giving provision for doubling. Several actors' names recur in all four.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1650-1659]
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 74781 A

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Verse nativity play in 5 Acts; 1642. Annotated on title page (f. 1) as 'No 1', together with earlier shelf-marks xxx-a-293 and 90J. Headed 'Ein Andächtige Gaistliche und Christliche Comoedya von d. Allerhailigsten Säligmahenten geburts Christi Jesu unsers Heilants, Gehalten in der pfarkirchen in...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1642
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 74781 I

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Four actors' sides for an untitled prose play (with passages of verse) in three acts, and written in the same hand as the preceding play; [mid 17th cent?]. There are a number of amendments and revisions, in three instances (ff.10, 17, 19) written on separate slips of paper and bound in. Earlier ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[Mid 17th century?]
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 74781 J

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Untitled prose tragedy in three acts, based on the story of the mythical King Idomeneus of Crete, a hero of the Trojan War followed by one act of a prose comedy on the theme of a deceived lover, presumably incomplete; [first quarter of 18th cent.?]. Earlier shelf-mark xxx a 69 appears on the pas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
18th century?
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 74781 K

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Untitled prose play in five acts, based on the history of the Macedonian King Philip V (ruled (221-179 BC) and his two sons, together with a short unidentified piece in two parts with two scenes in each, written in a different hand; [first quarter of 18th cent?]. Some later revision in at least ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 74781 B

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Verse comedy in 2 acts about a peasant and his son: 1652. Annotated on f. 1 as 'no 4', with short title 'Baueren Schonn auf dem saal', while earlier shelf-marks xxx-a 45 and 56J are noted on the title page (f. 2). Headed 'Kurzweiliches Spill von einem einfältigen groben Bauern Shonn und seinem V...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1652
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 74781 E

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Verse comedy in 3 acts, based on an episode from the adventures of the young Maximilian whilst out hunting chamois; [1650s?]. Annotated on front cover as 'No 7' with short title 'Maximilianus' and earlier shelf-marks xxx a 52 and 43J. Headed 'Eine schöne Comoedie von Maximiliano dem ersten Erzhe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1650s?]
Extent:
1 item

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