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[JESUIT THEATRE] – Father Christoph Lauther (b.1561). ‘Josippus’, a play, manuscript on paper, a contemporary copy [Lucerne, c.1588]
In Latin, ii + 70 + i leaves, 190 x 150mm, in an elegant scribal hand, titles in red. 19th-century half morocco. Provenance: Contemporary annotations to f.1, describing the play and its public performance in Lucerne at Michaelmas, 1588 – the Carthusian Monastery at Ittlingen, near Heidelberg (17th-century ownership inscription: ‘Cartusia Ittingensis’) – a German Jesuit house (bookstamp of the Jesuits, Germany Province: ‘Dom. Script. Prov. Germ. S. J.’) – 19th-century notes on Christoph Lauther on f.ii.
A contemporary copy of a 16th-century Biblical comedy written by Father Christoph Lauther of the Jesuit College of Lucerne, and performed in that city in 1588. According to the contemporary annotations on f.1, the play, a dramatic poem in five acts which takes as its subject the Old Testament story of Joseph, was first performed in Lucerne’s fish market before the papal nuncio and other notables; the character of the Pharoah scattered coins – both real and fake, the latter made of lead – amongst the crowd.
The author of the play, Father Christoph Lauther, joined the Jesuits in 1579: after studying rhetoric and philosophy at Ingolstadt, he is recorded at the Jesuit College in Lucerne, one of the most important houses of the Order in Switzerland, between 1585 and 1590 as a professor of rhetoric.
In Latin, ii + 70 + i leaves, 190 x 150mm, in an elegant scribal hand, titles in red. 19th-century half morocco. Provenance: Contemporary annotations to f.1, describing the play and its public performance in Lucerne at Michaelmas, 1588 – the Carthusian Monastery at Ittlingen, near Heidelberg (17th-century ownership inscription: ‘Cartusia Ittingensis’) – a German Jesuit house (bookstamp of the Jesuits, Germany Province: ‘Dom. Script. Prov. Germ. S. J.’) – 19th-century notes on Christoph Lauther on f.ii.
A contemporary copy of a 16th-century Biblical comedy written by Father Christoph Lauther of the Jesuit College of Lucerne, and performed in that city in 1588. According to the contemporary annotations on f.1, the play, a dramatic poem in five acts which takes as its subject the Old Testament story of Joseph, was first performed in Lucerne’s fish market before the papal nuncio and other notables; the character of the Pharoah scattered coins – both real and fake, the latter made of lead – amongst the crowd.
The author of the play, Father Christoph Lauther, joined the Jesuits in 1579: after studying rhetoric and philosophy at Ingolstadt, he is recorded at the Jesuit College in Lucerne, one of the most important houses of the Order in Switzerland, between 1585 and 1590 as a professor of rhetoric.
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