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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Wilson Special Collections LibraryMejor luna africana
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PQ6225 .T43 v.9Title Page
La mejor luna africana /de tres ingenios.
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Comedia famosaImprint
[Valencia] : Con Licencia: En Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, calle de la Cruz Nueva, junto al Real Colegio del Señor Patriarca, en donde se hallará esta y otras de diferentes Títulos. Año 1764.Physical Description
36 pages ; 21 cm (4to)Signatures
Signatures: A-D⁴ E².General Notes
There are as many as 9 playwrights connected with this work. Urzáiz Tortajada and moretianos.com mention the following: Juan and Luis Vélez de Guevara, Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez, Jerónimo Cáncer, Alfonso Alfaro, Agustín Moreto, Antonio Martínez, Antonio Sigler de la Huerta, and Pedro Rosete.Attributed to P. Calderón de la Barca, but not his, and two unknown in Diccionario de Seudónimos Literarios Españoles. Also attributed to Belmonte, Luis Vélez, Juan Vélez, Alfonso Alfaro, Moreto, Martínez de Meneses, Antonio Sigler de Huerta, Cáncer, and Pedro Rosete, cf. McKnight.
Citation Reference
Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 162, 191, 470, 703.Printer's Series Number
N. 76.Local Notes
RBC PQ6225 .T43 v. 9: Bookplate of Julián Barbazán (1897-) (printing press with initials J.B.) on front paste-down; ink stamps of J.L. Castro on front flyleaf verso and page 1 of first bound-with item.RBC PQ6225 .T43 v. 9: No. 2, in vol. 9 with binder's title: Comedias. Manuscript contents list affixed to front flyleaf verso. Half-bound in sprinkled leather with marbled paper boards; gilt rules, title, and volume number on spine.
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