Bellerophon
Subtitle: tragedie : representeé par l'Academie royale de musique
Contributors: Lully, Jean Baptiste, 1632-1687, composer; Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757, librettist; Amaulry, Thomas, 1650?-1725, bookseller; Hesiod; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: A l'entré de la porte de l'Académie royale de musique, et; Chez Thomas Amaulry, ruë Merciere, au Mercure galant
Published: 1688
Place of publication: On le vend a Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Bellerophon (Greek mythology); Drama
Work titles: Bellérophon
Notes: Comprises a prologue and 5 acts.

Libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, after Hesiod: Theogeny. Cf. New Grove opera.

Without the music of J.-B. Lully.

"Avec privilege de Sa Majesté."

Includes title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, and illustrated initials.

Some stage directions.

"Acteurs du prologue": p. [5] (1st count); "Actevrs de la tragedie": p. [6] (1st count); without performers.

"Permission pour tenir Academie Royale de musique, en faveur du Sieur de Lully": p. [55]-[57].

"Privilege du Roy": p. [57]-[59].