Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

The royal merchant

Other related names

• Norris, Henry, 1665-1731, attributed name
• Furness, Horace Howard, 1865-1930, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 926
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3559145
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3559145

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

17--

Place

England

Summary

Play in five acts, opening scene in Atlantis, with leading characters Navalda, King of Atlantis, and Albright, the Royal Merchant.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. i). Attribution to the actor Henry Norris written in a second, later hand (p. i), but this is not the adaptation of Beaumont and Fletcher's Beggar's Bush which was published in 1706 with a dedicatory preface by Henry Norris, nor is it Hull's adaptation.
   
• Forms part of Horace Howard Furness Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

60 leaves : 249 x 198 (179 x 139) mm. bound to 260 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (contemporary paper) + 60 + i (contemporary paper); [iv], 1-109, [110-114]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather, rebacked.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Gift of Horace Howard Furness, Jr. (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Atlantis (Legendary place)--Drama
• English drama--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Plays (document genre)
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover