Sources
84. Il Trittico

84.E.1

First Italian edition:
Il Tabarro — Suor Angelica — Gianni Schicchi.
Riduzione di Carlo Carignani.
Copyright 1918, later also 1919.
Ricordi, Milan etc., 1918.
PN 117000, 403 pages (+ pp. 189bis and 190bis), 4°.

According to MRL, the plate number for the edition was established on 10 March 1917. The complete edition, prepared for the first performance on 14 December 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, was ready in September of that year (see Carteggi 1958, no. 731, of 4 Sepember 1918). It was printed in October (as shown on the blind stamps), and Puccini received a copy by the beginning of November (see I-Mr, Carteggio Puccini-Clausetti, no. 104). However, the sales copies were only printed from 31 December 1918 (MRK states “1919,” but that is obviously an error).
In Suor Angelica, the edition already contains Puccini’s late expansion of the aria “Senza mamma,” for which pp. 189/190 were supplemented with pp. 189bis /190bis.
This was probably the version of the New York première.

Copies

I-FnBiblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze	Mus.i.668	BS 10.18
I-Lgp Biblioteca del Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca	84.E.1	BS 12.18
I-McConservatorio di musica "Giuseppe Verdi", Milan	Spartiti 2058	BS 11.18
I-RscConservatorio di Santa Cecilia, Rome	G.21.F.26	BS 12.18
D-BStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz	N.Mus.4793	BS 2.19
F-PnBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris	A.I.D.Mus.1082	BS 2.19
GB-LblThe British Library, London [formerly the British Museum]	F.860.l.	BS 11.18	registered 6 May 1919
US-WcLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC	M 3.3.P8T2	BS 11.18	registered 13 December 1918
I-LmpMuseo di casa Puccini, Lucca		BS 12.18
Other USA holdings: see NUC NP 0634344, 0634345

84.E.2

Second Italian edition:
Copyright 1918, 1919.
Ricordi, Milan etc., 1919.
PN 117000 with additional PNs 117404, 117406, and 117408 for the individual operas, 403 pages (the individual operas also have an additional separate pagination), 4°.

Announced in Musica d’oggi of June 1919, 32.

This edition incorporated the changes Puccini made for the first Italian performance on 11 January 1919 in Rome and includes other minor corrections in view of the second Italian performance in May 1919 in Florence. The edition apparently was published shortly after that performance.Note: *A copy Puccini dedicated to Sybil Seligman was also dated in June 1919 (see the catalogue of Sotheby‘s auction of 28/29 May 1992, no. 622). MRK gives 31 July 1919 as date of printing, probably for the sales copies.
In MRL, the PNs 117404, 117406, and 117408 appear only with the date of 1 June 1921, although they were used already much earlier; the date certainly indicates the beginning of production of separate editions.

Copies

I-McConservatorio di musica "Giuseppe Verdi", Milan	Spartiti 2286	BS 6.19
I-Lgp Biblioteca del Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca	84.E.2	BS 6.19
GB-LblThe British Library, London [formerly the British Museum]	F.860.ee.	BS 6.19	registered 15 March 1965
US-BOUniversity of Colorado Music Library, Boulder, Colorado	M1503 P977 T3 1919	BS 8.19