Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 217

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUSIC.) [Metastasio, Pietro.] La Clémence de Titus. Tragédie. calligraphic manuscript in french, written in neat italic hand in brown ink, recto only, on laid paper with Van der Ley(?) watermark (cf. Churchill 192). 70 leaves. 209x164 mm, contemporary olive morocco gilt with red silk doublures and endleaves. France, mid-18th century?

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Free translation of Metastasio's 1734 drama La Clemenza di Tito, which was set to music by over 40 composers during the 18th century including Mozart, who based his 1791 opera seria of the same name on an extensively revised libretto by Caterino Mazzolà.