Isis
Subtitle: tragedie en musique, ornée d'entrées de ballet, de machines, & de changements de theatre : representée devant Sa Majesté à Saint Germain en Laye
Contributors: Schoonebeek, Adriaan, 1657 or 1658-1705, engraver; Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1682
Place of publication: Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris, [Amsterdam?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Notes: Libretto for an opera in 5 acts with prologue.

Text by P. Quinault, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; music by J.B. Lully; first performed at Saint Germain-en-Laye, 5 January 1677. See Grove music online (WWW site, 16 January 2010).

Published by A. Wolfgang or A. Schelte?

In the imprint, date is printed with second and third "C"s turned.

Pages [1]-[3] are blank.

Engraved frontispiece, signed: "A. Shoonebeek."

Signatures: A-C¹² (C12 blank).

May have been published in a collection titled, Recueil des opera, des balets, & des plus belles pieces en musique; Houghton Theatre Collection copy lacks collective title page.

Includes lists of "Acteurs" with named cast.

Schmidt C. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC 5-7