This manuscript contains the text of a Lower Engadine version of a
drama about Joseph (ff. 1-74), which is based on the play “Ein
hüpsch nüwes Spil von Josephen (…)”, attributed to Jacob Ruf
and printed in Zurich in 1540. Converging indicators, such as the
statements by Chiampell (Placidus Plattner, Ulrici Campelli
Historia raetica, Basel, Schneider, T. 2 1890, 353), as well as the
orthography and the language of the transcriptions suggest that
this is the only surviving copy of the Joseph-drama by Chiampell
himself, which was performed in Susch in 1564. At the end of the
manuscript, there is a conversation between a Protestant pastor and
a sick person (ff. 75-77), as well as several prayers (ff. 78-80),
which were translated from the German by the scribe of the text,
Baltasar Valantin.
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