Author: CROCUS, Cornelius.
Title: Comoedia sacra cui titulus Joseph, ad christianae juventutis institutionem juxta locos inventionis veteremque artem, per Cornelium Crocum Aemsterodami ludimagistrum.
Description: Paris, Christianus Wechel, 1541. 8vo. (16, 8x9, 7 cm.) 62, [1 blank, 1=printer's mark] pp. Modern cloth (by Stroobants). (a few pp. waterstained; number written on title) Provenance: 'Ex libris G. Labiche' on pastedown. ¶ The play is preceded by a dedicatory letter, dated 21 March 1536, to Martinus Nivenius or Nieveen, teacher, close friend of Crocus, and 'warden' of the St. Geertruiden convent in Amsterdam. ¶ Joseph was first enacted by pupils of Cornelius Crocus on Kerkwijdingsfeest 1535. Crocus was probably rector of the Niewe-Zijds-school in those days. He mentions in the colophon the names of the pupils who played a role in the play: Petrus Comes Wlpipaludanus, Franciscus Teyngus, Guilelmus Sylvius, Renerus Simonius, Ioannes Hudepolius, Egbertus Rudolphi F. Ioannes Cornelii F.Arnoldus Tielmaniae F. & Nicolaus Alardi F." J.F.M. Sterck suggests the play was performed on Dam square. As usual with school plays the first enactment of Ioseph preceded publication. This play was very popular in the mid-sixteenth century, from 1536 to 1549 it was printed every year by various publishers. This edition: Kölker, CL.53.

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