Roland
Subtitle: tragedie en musique : representée devant Sa Majesté à Versailles, le huitième ianvier 1685
Publisher: A l'entrée de la porte de l'Academie royale de musique, au Palais royal ruë Saint Honoré; Imprimée aux despens de ladite Academie, par Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique
Published: 1685
Place of publication: On la vend a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Drama
Work titles: Roland
Notes: Without the music.

Libretto by Philippe Quinault.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-H⁴ I²(I2 blank).

Error in paging: p. 21 misnumbered 12.

Frontispiece engraved by Juan Dolivar after Jean Berain, who designed the scenery.

Woodcut printer's device on t.p.; initials, tailpieces, headpieces, one signed: P.R.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Schmidt, C.B. Livrets of Jean-Baptiste Lully's tragédies lyriques, LLC12-1.

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

From the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd.

Article in Bibliographic File: Jed Wentz (2013). An Annotated livret of Lully's Roland as a Source for Seventeenth Century Declamation. Cambridge Opera Journal, 25, pp 1-36.

No. 13 in volume with 14 other libretti by Quinault.

Old signature of M. Daniel, rue des Bonheures au Soleil d'or, with his ms. annotations and added verses.

No. 6 in a volume of 6 works labeled on spine: Recveil d'opera. Tom. III.

Imperfect: wanting the plate.

No. 6 in a volume of 8 French opera librettos labeled on spine: Recveil d'opera.

Bound in contemporary brown calf, spine gilt, edges stained red, marbled endleaves; ms. paraph at foot of p. [8] (1st count); wanting the blank leaf at end.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red; ms. paraph on p. [8] (1st count); in green cloth case, 26 cm.

Bound in contemporary acid-stained calf, spine gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked); ms. paraph on p. [8] (1st count); wanting the blank leaf at end.