Albumazar : a comedy presented before the Kings Maiesty at Cambridge by the gentlemen of Trinity Colledge : newly reuised and corrected by a speciall hand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomkis, Thomas, active 1604-1615.

Contributor:

Okes, Nicholas, printer.

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)

McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899 (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Rosengarten, J.G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

88 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Albvmazar

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Nicholas Okes, 1634.

Notes:

Published anonymously by Thomas Tomkis. Cf. ESTC.

Adapted from the Italian comedy L'astrologo by Giambattista Della Porta. Cf. ESTC.

Signatures: A-L⁴.

The first leaf is blank; A2 is blank except for signature-mark "A2" in an ornamental border.

Without pagination.

Two editions were published with imprint date 1634. The earlier edition (STC 24102) has a fleur-de-lys device on t.p. and reads "Curtezan" in the dramatis personae; the catchword on D1r is "O" and L4r has head-line "Albvmazar." The later edition (STC 24103) has a fleur-de-lys within an ornamented oval as a device on the t.p. and reads "Curtezen" in the dramatis personae; the catchword on D1 recto is "drops" and L4r has a head-piece rather than a head-line.

Woodcuts: title vignette, initial and head-pieces.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries RBC copy imperfect: leaves A1 and A2 (blanks) wanting; leaf L1 wanting; leaf L4 wanting with missing text supplied in ms. on an inserted blank leaf.

Penn Libraries RBC copy has ms. note in pencil on title leaf.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 24102

Greg I, 330(c)

ESTC S123120

Related Work:

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615. Astrologo.

OCLC:

18334055