Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	MS GERM/5
Title	Comedy of the Crocodile
Date	17th century
Description	Manuscript volume, 17th century, 'Das Crocodil. Ein Schauspiel' (the Comedy of the Crocodile). On paper with a 20th century binding.
Extent	1 volume containing 40 leaves
CustodialHistory	Bearing the number 358469 on folio 1r.
Acquisition	Bought from the Munich bookseller L Rosenthal and presented to University College London by Professor Trouton in 1911.
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAids	Dorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNote	This manuscript has been described in Louis Augustus Triebel's The Comedy of the Crocodile (Eine lustige Comedj von den Crocodil-stechen zu Nrmberg) as preserved in various manuscripts. A critical and historical introduction together with the text of the play (Humphrey Milford, London, 1925; also published by Oxford University Press, 1925), which includes a text of the play based on the Nrnberg manuscript (Nor. H. 703), comparing it with manuscripts at University College London, Munich, and elsewhere.

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