Albumazar
Subtitle: a comedy presented before the Kings Maiesty at Cambridge, by the Gentlemen of Trinity Colledge
Contributors: Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615; Okes, Nicholas, printer; Barton, Thomas Pennant, 1803-1869, former owner
Edition: Newly reuised and corrected by a speciall hand.
Publisher: Printed by Nicholas Okes
Published: 1634
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Other titles: Albvmazar; Early English Playbooks, 1594-1799 (Boston Public Library); Shakespeare Collection (Collection of Distinction)
Notes: Anonymous. By Thomas Tomkis.--ESTC

An adaptation of: Porta, Giambattista della. L'astrologo.

Partly in verse.

Signatures: A-Ĺþ.

Title page vignette (printer's device) head- and talipieces; initials.

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

In this edition D1r catchword reads: O.

Greg, W.W. Bibliography of the English printed drama to the Restoration, I, 330(dI)

Catalogue of the Barton collection, Boston Public Library (1888 edition), Misc., p. 566

English short title catalogue, S123120

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 24102

Cataloged 20171117 jmoschella

condition reviewed 20171214 cletizia

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy imperfect: A1 and A2 (both blank) wanting. Halfbound in ca. 19th-century calfskin and brown paper. Armorial bookplate of the Barton Library. "Albumazar" inscribed in an early hand on L3 verso and L4 verso. Lower margin of L4 trimmed away and repaired with an early manuscript waste fragment containing a handwritten index labeled "Divorce, religion, love [...]".