Beautiful Brokatpapier in Bohemia
PALLAVICINI, Stefano Benedetto.
I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore second’il testo Luc. cap. 23. v. 48 … Cantata sacra, prodotta nella chiesa di S. Francesco del Sac. Ordine Militare de’ Crocigeri colla stella rossa, in Praga, presso al ponte il giorno del Venerdì santo alle undeci ore di matina, 1738. [Prague], Johann Norbert Fitzky, [1738].
4to, pp. 10; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces; a very good copy in contemporary Brokatpapier with a floral design on a textured gilt ground on red paper, by Johann Michael Munck of Augsburg, the wrapper lined with plain paper; gilding slightly rubbed around edges, stain to lower cover.
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I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore second’il testo Luc. cap. 23. v. 48 … Cantata sacra, prodotta nella chiesa di S. Francesco del Sac. Ordine Militare de’ Crocigeri colla stella rossa, in Praga, presso al ponte il giorno del Venerdì santo alle undeci ore di matina, 1738.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of a libretto produced for the Good Friday service in 1738 to be sung in the monumental baroque church of St Francis Seraph in Prague, comprising a dialogue between David, Mary Magdalene, and St Peter in the aftermath of the Crucifixion.
Pallavicini (1672–1742) was a poet in the service of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Augustus III, at the court of Dresden; his libretto was set to music by the celebrated Bohemian court composer Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1749).
The beautiful Brokatpapier wrappers retain most of Johann Michael Munck’s imprint along the right-hand edge of the upper cover.
No copies traced on OCLC or KVK.