Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40885

Call Number

PQ6217.A2 C664 v.18/n.6

Title Page

La fama es la mejor dama. /

Comedia de * * * ; para representarla en la Pasqua de Pentecostés la compañia del Sr. Luis Navarro. Año de 1796.

Imprint

[Madrid] : Se hallará en la Librería de Cerro, calle de Cedaceros; y en su puesto calle de Alcalá: se venden todas las Comedias nuevas, y Tragedias: Comedias autiguas [antiguas], Autos, Saynetes, Entremeses y Tonadillas. Por docenas á precios equitativos., [ca. 1796]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

37, [3] pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-E⁴

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: (Res- ; B4v: Cap. ; C4v: y ; D4v: pez.
Urzáiz Tortajada identifies Jerónimo Cifuentes as author.
Cast list identifies actors.
Publication date based on performance cited in drop title.
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon with reduced price for quantity purchase, followed by list of titles for sale, p. [38-39].
Last page blank.

Citation Reference

Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 253.
Szmuk, S.E. "A Descriptive Catalog of a Collection of Comedias Sueltas in the Hispanic Society of America." Dissertation, City University of New York, 1985, no. 200.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

Annotation in black ink, title page: D^n Geronimo Cifuentes.
Annotation in black ink, bottom of title page: Enmendado eso caigo en que pronuncian Anibal y asi esta bien el verso.
No. 6 of 16, in vol. 18 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO XVII A. G.

Subject/Genre/Themes

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.

Genre/Form data

rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbprov--NNH--Sammelbands.

Added Entries

Cerro, Manuel del (distributor)
Compañía de Luis Navarro (acting company)