Tou hagiou Grēgoriou Nazanzēnou tou theologou Tragōdia, Christos paschōn
Subtitle: Sancti Gregorii Nazanzeni theologi Tragoedia, Christus patiens
Contributors: Blado, Antonio, 1490-1567, editor, printer; Derome, Nicolas-Denis, 1731-1788, binder
Publisher: Per Antonium Bladum Asulanum.
Published: 1542
Place of publication: Romae
Language: grc
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Drama; Early works to 1800; Passion; Greek drama (Tragedy); Christian drama; Passion of Jesus Christ
Other titles: Tragōdia, Christos paschōn; Sancti Gregorii Nazanzeni theologi Tragoedia, Christus patiens; Tragoedia, Christus patiens; Christus patiens
Work titles: Christos paschōn
Description: "Mary Mother of God and her sufferings, not Christ, are the focus of this Christian passion play in 2600 verses. The work is divided in three, the passion and death of Christ, the entombment of Christ and the resurrection of Christ. Each part conforms to the classical unities of action, time and place, and all three adopt the ancient Greek convention of a chorus, in this case two, both composed of young women, who alterately query and counsel Mary. Nearly half the text comes in whole or in part from Euripides, and portions of the lost end of the Bacchae have been recovered from this cento, which also draws on Aeschylus, Lycophron and Romanos the Methodist."--bookseller's description.
Notes: Parallel title, dedication, and colophon in Latin; text in Greek only.

Printer's name from colophon. Colophon reads: Impressum Romae per Antonium Bladum Asulanum. M.D. XLII.

Wrongly attributed to St Gregory.

Edited by A. Blado.

Signatures: pi⁴ (pi1 blank) A-F⁸.

Spaces left with guide letters for initials.

Burke Library copy: Initials not supplied over guide letters.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, G1143

Cathedral libraries catalogue, G943

EDIT 16, CNCE 14528

Fumagalli, G. Catalogo delle edizioni romane di Antonio Blado asolano ed eredi 1516-1593, 66

Burke Library copy: Armorial bookplate of the Marquis de Morante.

Burke Library copy: Inscribed by Chardon de la Rochelle.

Burke Library copy: Binding: Full green morocco-style binding with gold-tooled boards, turn-ins, and spine; spine lettered: Christ. Patien; marbled end-papers; all edges gilt; pink ribbon marker; binder's ticket: Relié par Derome, le Jeune ... rue St. Jacques pre le College du Plessis, Hotel de la Couture, No 65, en 1785.