Le tragedie di M. Lodouico Dolce: cioe, Giocasta, Medea, Didone, Ifigenia, Thieste, Hecuba

Euripides (ca. 460–406 B.C.), Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 B.C.–65 A.D.), and Lodovico Dolce (1508–1568). Le tragedie di M. Lodouico Dolce: cioe, Giocasta, Medea, Didone, Ifigenia, Thieste, Hecuba. Venice: Domenico Farri, 1566.

These Italian translations of works by Euripides and Seneca have been separated into individual plays and rebound in similar sheet music. Unlike other examples given in this exhibit, the music on the animal skin used to bind these books has been printed by a press rather than written by a scribe. The spines of each book have been reinforced with animal skin that has handwritten text on it revealing an overlap in the different traditions of book production preserved here in the bindings.