Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40333

Call Number

PQ6217.A2 C664 v.21/n.9

Title Page

Auto al Nacimiento de N. Señor Jesucristo. Intitulado Las astucias de Luzbel, contra las divinas profecias.

Caption Title

Auto al Nacimiento de N. Señor Jesucristo

Imprint

[Madrid] : Se hallará este Auto y otros de diferentes títulos, Comedias, Sainetes y Monólogos, en Madrid, en la Libreria de Cuesta, calle Mayor frente á la casa de Cordero., [s.a.]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

28 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ D²
Signed with a colon on second leaf of each gathering.

General Notes

This auto al nacimiento printed anonymously has the following author attributions: (A) Boyer attributes it to Jerónimo Guedeja y Quiroga; (B) Biblioteca Nacional de España attributes it to Juan de Quiroga Faxardo (based on La Barrera); (C) Urzáiz Tortajada attributes it to Quiroga(?).
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon.

Citation Reference

Boyer, M. Texas collection of comedias sueltas, p 365; Barrera y Leirado. Cat. del teatro antiguo español, p. 314; Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 540.
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. 046.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

Annotations in ink on title page: "Quir", crossed out
under that, "Por Quiroga.", crossed out
under that, "De Quiroga".
No. 9 of 13, in vol. 21 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS DE EPOCA INCIERTA.

Subject/Genre/Themes

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.

Genre/Form data

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