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Feb 25, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read Read on X
It Has Pockets!!

Purple Velvet Pockets!
19th c. book portfolio lined with all sorts of luxury fabrics. What goes inside?

#NewberryLibrary
i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Open portfolio with small b...
Open portfolio with small v...
Open portfolio with small b...
Portfolio showing small boo...
Gold tooled music portfolio...
Don't look now, but it has two books in it! One goes in that velvet front pocket, and both contain c. 1600 Euridice music. Two books, one from the vel...
As I commented in a response further below, these books are scores for the supposed first opera, on the tragic Euridice, composed by Jacopo Peri, and performed in honor of Marie de Medici and Henry IV at their Florence wedding (Henry attended by proxy).
Peri himself sang a role!

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i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Dial with four concentric circles positioned on an image of
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#NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA…
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#NewberryLibrary i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CA… Woodcut view of the round ancient walls of Rome with 16 gate
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