Ein Geistlich Spyl von der Empfengknuss vn[d] Geburt Iesu Christi, ouch dem, welches sich vor, by, vnnd nach der geburt verlossen hat : Wie sölichs bschriben wirt in den zwey erste[n] Capitlen Matthei vnd Luce, der Euangelisten, vffs kürtzelst vergriffen / Gedicht durch Jacob Funckelin Anno 1553. vnd gespilt durch die Iugend zů Biel vffs Nüw Jar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funkelin, Jakob, 1522-1565 or 1566.

Contributor:

Froschauer, Christoph, approximately 1490-1564, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Drama--Early works to 1800.

Jesus Christ.

Christmas plays--Early works to 1800.

Christmas plays.

Genre:

Drama.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

62 unnumbered pages : music ; 16 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

nnd itht a.t. ErSo (C) 1554 (Q)

Place of Publication:

Getruckt zů Zürych : By Christoffel Froschouer, [1554]

Notes:

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf d7v; imprint date from VD 16.

Signatures: a-c⁸ d⁸(-d8?).

Without pagination.

Woodcut title vignette (arms of Biel, Switzerland).

Printed marginalia.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound in the lower portion of a parchment ms. leaf from a glossed Bible: text from Luke 17 frame-ruled in plummet(?) with interlinear notes and surrounded by gloss, all in Gothic hands; blue paragraph mark and evidence of rubrication. Glue stains(?) on leaf suggest its previous use as a pastedown in another binding.

Penn Libraries copy: tail outer corner of title leaf torn and mended; some leaves in latter portion of volume dampstained at fore-edge.

Cited in:

VD 16 F 3309

OCLC:

802061097