Paris (1542)

Title

Paris (1542)

Creator

Foucher, various printers and anonymous illustrator

Date

1542

Description

 
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Celestina, en la quelle est traicte deceptions des serviteurs envers leurs masitre et des macquerelles envers les amoureux. Paris:De la Porte; Foucher, 1542
9 engravings, all factotums.

File at the Bayerische Staats Bibliotheke, which has a digitalized copy on its digital portal.

This is the same copy that is digitalized on Google Books and from which these images are taken.

French translation. Contains nine engravings at the beginning of some of the acts. All engravings are factotums of the characters, many of them repetitions. Only the engraving from act four has the characters' names identified them as Lucrecia and Celestina.

Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, in "Ediciones de la Celestina", in volume II of La Celestina por Fernando de Rojas (Vigo: Eugenio Krapf, 1990), pg. LXX, cites this edition in the following way: 

1542, Paris.-Título: "Celestine en laqvel|le est Traicte des deceptions de seruiteurs enuers leurs Maistres et 1 des Macquerelles enuers les Amoureux. On les vend a PARIS a la grant Rue sainct Jacques Par JEHAN FOUCHER. M.D.XLIl". Al fin: "Imprime a Paris par NICOLAS BARBONS impimeur. L'an M.D.XLII". Gothic letters. In octavo. , signs. a-z, de º except z which is a quarto. Brunet, Manuel, edic. 1860, t-i., coll. 1721 also cites this edition saying that it is the same translation that it is the same translation that served for the last two and that there are copies that have different editor names such as Pierre Sergent, Morice de la Porte or the bookseller, Oudin Petit. The
München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has a copy of this edition.

Illustration of act I of the Paris edition (1542)
A woman wearing a girdle with an object in hand (diamond?) in a garden with Cupid.

Illustration of act II of the Paris edition (1542)
Two factotums, one of a woman that could be Celestina, and the other of a young man with a bag that appears to be a hunting morion. Perhaps it is trying to show the delivery of the bag of gold to Celestina with two images from another source.

Illustration act III of the Paris edition (1542)
The same factotums as in act II.

Illustration act IV of the Paris edition (1542)
Two women who appear with a written title identifying them as "Celestine" and Lucrecia. This is the only case where there is identification over the figures. The figure of Lucrecia has a band or border above probably destined to be inscribed,…

Illustration of act V of the Paris edition (1542)
Factotums of a man and woman with unfilled banners. The woman's character is the same as was used for Lucrecia in the previous act.

Illustration of act VI of the Paris edition (1542)
The same factotums as act V.

Illustration of act VII of the Paris edition (1542)
The same factotum of a man from acts V and VI and the same figure of a woman used for Celestina in act IV, but here with an empty banner.

Illustration of act VIII of the Paris edition (1542)
The same combination of a man and a woman from acts V and VI.

Illustration of act X of the Paris edition (1542)
The same combination of two women as in act IV.
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