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Second Strasburg edition of a popular "sacred comedy", or school play, written by one of the first and most important Neo-Latin poets and humanists of the Northern Netherlands. The work tells the story of Joseph in Egypt, and focuses in particular on Joseph's resistance to the advances of Potiphar's wife. The choice to dramatize this scene was seen as both innovative and controversial at the time. The play became incredibly popular, since 17 editions have been recorded. The present edition, however, is relatively scarce.Sacred comedies are plays especially written for school children to provide moral and religious education. They were also intended to teach them proper Latin, and the art of appearing in public, since the plays were often performed. The genre was developed by humanists from the 1530s onwards, as they found drama to be a particularly effective method for teaching their ideals to students. However, they found the classical examples on the curriculum not quite suitable as they did not always adhere to humanist morals. As such, sacred comedies typically use the language, character, and humor from works by the Roman playwrights Terence (ca. 195-ca. 159 BCE) and Plautus (251-184 BCE), but combine them with biblical themes.The present play was written by Cornelius Crocus (ca. 1500-1550), a rector at a gymnasium in Amsterdam, in 1535, and is an early example of the genre. Crocus was a devout catholic and even became a Jesuit at the end of his life. He likely wrote Joseph in response to the Reformation. It was first performed by his students at the Dam Square in Amsterdam in 1535, shortly after the Anabaptist Riot. This event, in which forty Anabaptists occupied the city hall on the Dam Square, affected the citizens of Amsterdam deeply. It was one of the first major clashes between the catholics and protestants in the city, and marked the end of the city council's tolerant attitude towards the "heretics". The present play may have been written and performed at this time to remind the local community of proper catholic virtues.The play was first published by Joannes Steelsius in Antwerp in 1536. This edition included a note which reminded readers of the Anabaptist Riot in Amsterdam. The play then received 16 more editions before 1549, all published in France, Germany, and the Southern Low Countries. The present edition is the second from Strasburg and the 11th overall.With the bookplate of the Bibliothèque du Château des Ormes mounted on the front pastedown. The edges and corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed, the boards are somewhat rubbed. The title page is slightly soiled, a small tear in the outer margin of leaf [33]. Otherwise in good condition.l USTC 622917 (5 copies); VD16 C 6047; cf. Spies, M., 'A chaste Joseph for schoolboys.' In: Education and learning in the Netherlands 1400-1600 (2004), pp. 223-233; Wouters, D., Comoedia sacra and comedia nueva: defending innovation in comedy from the northern humanists to Lopez de Vega. In: Medievalia et Humanistica, 47 (2023), pp.19-39. Early 18th-century gold tooled mottled brown calf, with a brown morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a paper manuscript shelfmark label at the foot of the spine, gold tooled board edges, marbled end papers. With a printer's device on the title page and final page, two decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, and three woodcut tailpieces. Pages: [40] ll.

Rare first edition of Cornelius Crocus' (ca. 1500-1550) major apologetic work Ecclesia, on the authority of the Catholic Church, an impassioned response to the winds of false doctrine that swept through the Low Countries in the turbulent 1530s. The book is prefaced by a six page dedicatory letter to his fellow citizen Nicolaus Cannius (1504-1555), rector of the Ursuline convent in Amsterdam. In this preface Crocus frames the central problem of his age: although Scripture is perfect and complete, its interpretation is endlessly contested. Only the Church's divinely guided magisterium, he argues, can anchor the faithful amidst doctrinal turmoil.Crocus, educated at Louvain and praised by Erasmus for the purity of his Latin, spent most of his life in Amsterdam, where he served as rector of the Latin school and became an influential humanist pedagogue. A vigorous defender of Catholic orthodoxy, he had already opposed Lutheran teaching in De Fide et Operibus (1531) and answered the Anabaptists in his Dissertatio cum Anabaptistis (1535). In Ecclesia, his most substantial and enduring theological work, he takes aim at the doctrinal excesses of Anabaptists, Sacramentarians and other reforming groups, not with speculative theology but with a battery of Scripture, patristic authorities and church history. The tone is at times sharp, unsurprising in the aftermath of the unrest of 1535, but the work is conceived as a pastoral tool, intended "especially for the preachers of the Word of God" (verbi Dei concionatoribus).Crocus himself would eventually join the Jesuits. After resigning his Amsterdam rectorship and travelling to Rome, on foot, as vowed, he was received personally by Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), but died only weeks later in the summer of 1550. His early death did not diminish the esteem in which he was held: Jesuit houses circulated notices honouring him, and his friend Cannius is said to have written a biography now lost.The Ecclesia's historical importance was recognised early. Humanist scholars such as Alardus of Amsterdam (1491-1544) drew upon it, and later Jesuit editors included Crocus' ecclesiological writings in their collected editions. With 2 small fragments cut from the title page and the final leaf, repaired with old paper, and some occasional browning. Otherwise in good condition.l Kölker, p. 309 no. 27; Nijhoff & Kronenberg 644; Ter Gouw, "Geschiedenis van Amsterdam" 5 (1886), p. 465; USTC 404823 (10 copies); not in STCV. Modern printer's waste paper binding. With a full page woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Pages: [55] ll.

Zustand: 0. Die erste Ausgabe erschien 1536 in Antwerpen. - Vorliegende Ausgabe enthält als Anhang von Decimus Magnus Ausonius: Precatio matutina ad omnipotentem deum" (VD16, A 4406). - Der Theologe und neulateinische Dramatiker Cornelius Crocus (Kroock) trat in mehreren Schriften als eifriger Vertheidiger der katholischen Lehre hervor" (ADB XLVII, 562). Noch kurz vor seinem Tod 1550 wurde er in Rom in den Jesuitenorden aufgenommen. - Min. gebräunt. - VD16, C 6048. la Gewicht in Gramm: 350 8°. Mit Holzschn.-Druckermarke a. Titel u. einer Holzschn.-Initiale. 62 nn. Bll., Mod. HPgmt.

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.

15. Coloniae, ( Köln ) , Ioannes Gymnicus excudebat, 1539 , in-8°, 143 x 93 mm, (124)nn pp , A8-G8H6 (complete), bound in at the end are 4 pp with manuscript letters (a bit cut short by the binder, no transcript exists). Bound in modern full vellum, edges painted red, very nice copy without any provenance indication. Rare, no copies known outside German speaking territory. See USTC 640449 . Cornelis Croock lived most of life in Amsterdam. He studied theology at Leuven University (under Barlandus, and probably Alardus of Amsterdam). In 1550 he travelled via Louvain to Rome and was accepted in the Jesuit Order by its founder Ignatius of Loyola. Croock died however before the end of 1550. His ''Ecclesia'' is dedicated to Cannius. It deals with heresy and serves also as a guide for preachers. (DWC/Huygens Instituut KNAW - Den Haag).