This is the oldest copy of Gian Travers’ drama “Joseph”,
performed in Zuoz in 1534. The manuscript was produced three years
after the death of Travers and makes use of spellings that were no
longer in use at the time the copy was made. The scribe is Conradin
Planta, probably a relative: Gian Travers was married to Anna
Planta. The manuscript is bound incorrectly: the text begins with
ff. 9-13, then there is a leaf missing, f. 14, f. 1, f. 5, f. 3, f.
4, f. 6, f. 2, f. 15, a missing leaf, f. 7, f. 16. Folio 8r,
originally the final page, contains a cautionary poem; f. 8v was
left blank. The front flyleaves are made of a large parchment
sheet, originally from a 12th century parchment manuscript with a
text by Constantine the African, De febribus, chap. 3-5.
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