Rome (1515)

Title

Rome (1515)

Creator

Cromberger? (attributed)

Date

1515

Description

 
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Tragicomedia de Calisto y melibea. Enla q̄l se cōtiene de mas de su agradable dulce estilo muchas sentēncias filosofales: auisos muy necessarios a mācebos ...nueuamente añadido el tractado de Centurio. Colophon by Stanislao Polono, Seville (1502) in the edition of the British Library.

We are reprodcuing here images from the copy at the Biblioteca Nacional de Argentian, digitalized by Cervantes Virtual, which coincide wit the copy at the British Library. In each record we reproduce after the above mentioned images the ones from the slightly different copy at  William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan PQ 6426 .A1 1502? Ejemplar único (Norton n. 878, Post-incunables ibéricos, n. 1342BETA manid 5224). We thnak  Pablo Alvarez, Outreach Librarian & Curator, Special Collections Library fro this images.

Version on Cervantes Vritual at 
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/tragicomedia-de-calisto-y-melibea-en-la-qual-se-contiene-de-mas-de-su-agradable-amp-dulce-estilo-m-0/html/

This one is attributed to [Sevilla], [Jacobo Cromberger] (1502). Origin: Purchase. Raymond Foulché-Delbosc Auction: Oct 12-17, 1936. Biblioteca   Nacional (Argentina). Ub. fís.: 214 FD.

There is also another that coincides with the images at the British Library, which has the colophon by Stanislao Polono British Library C20b.15.
There is also a very similar one in  the British Library, C.20.b.9. 

Attribtued to Rome (1515) from the copy from the British library is from the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Texts
http://www.hispanicseminary.org/t&c/cel/index-en.htm

See also The Book Called Celestina in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America (New York, 1954), pg. 98, that describes the problem from this series of editions that have been attributed in origin to Cromberger.

See the editions G1, G, H e I in the Edición e introducción crítica by Miguel Marciales (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985), volume I, pgs. 6-7.

Martín Abad, in "La Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea de “Sevilla, 1502”: Una nueva edición (BETA manid 5905)" mentions, in addition to another copy of this type, the following listing of copies with "rhyming colophon":

  • Seville: [Jacobo Cromberger, c. 1511]. British Library, C.20.c.17. Only copy (Norton n. 810, Post-incunables ibéricos, n. 1341, BETA manid 4616).
  • Seville: [Jacobo Cromberger, c. 1513-1515]. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan PQ 6426 .A1 1502? Only copy (Norton n. 878, Post-incunables ibéricos, n. 1342BETA manid 5224).
  • [Rome: Marcellus Silber , c. 1515-1516]. (Norton, Imprenta, pp. 219-20; BETA manid 5225). Boston Public LibraryXD.170B.9, one of the five known copies.
  • Seville: [Jacobo Cromberger, c. 1518-1520]. Biblioteca Nacional de España, R/26575 (4). Only copy (Norton n. 942, Post-incunables ibéricos, n. 1345, BETA manid 4617)

Illustration of the cover page of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colofón Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Celestina knocking at the door of Pleberio's house with the yarn in her hand. Lucrecia in the background, Melibea and Calisto in their first meeting talking, a horse and unnamed servant on the right margin. Initials of Lucrecia, Melibea and Calisto…

Illustration of act I of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of Pármeno, Calisto, Melibea, Sempronio and Celestina. Elicia and Crito, whose names appear in the image heading, are not shown. Pármeno attired with a turban

Illustration of act II of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of Calisto, Pármeno and Sempronio. In the two margins a tree and houses respectively.

Illustration of act VI of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of houses, Calisto, Celestina (with the rosary), Pármeno and Sempronio

Illustration of act IX of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of five characters and six names above: Sempronio, Pármeno, Celestina, Lucrecia, Elicia and Areúsa

Illustration of act XII of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Five factotums (three men and two women) and above in two lines the names of Calisto, Lucrecia, Melibea, Pármeno, Sempronio, Pleberio, Alisa, Celestina, Elicia

First illustration of act XIII of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
The scene of Celestina's death at the hands of Pármeno and Sempronio on the left, with Elicia present, and on the right the following scene of Pármeno and Sempronio jumping from the window and the judge with a soldier

Second illustration of act XIII of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
The execution scene of Pármeno and Sempronio with an executioner and his assistant on the right. On the left, the judge with two soldiers and a character who covers their eyes so as not to see, perhaps Sosia

Illustration of act XIV of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Scene of Calisto climbing the ladder to the Melibea's garden protected by two servants. Within Lucrecia and Melibea wait. The same engraving is used again in act XIX

Illustration of act XV of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of houses, Elicia with her head covered (image used for Alisa in act IV), Centurio (image with turban used previously for Sempronio), Areúsa and a tree

Illustration of act XVI of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of Melibea, Lucrecia, Alisa (the same image used on act IX for Celestina), Pleberio and a tree

Illustration of act XVII of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of houses, Elicia (Image used in act IX for Celestina and in act XVI for Alisa), a woman with the erroneous name of Sosia, Areúsa and a tree

Illustration of act XVIII of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Factotums of a tree, Areúsa covered (Image used previously for Elicia and Alisa), Centurio (image used previously for Pármeno and Sempronio), Elicia and houses

First illustration of act XIX of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
The same engraving as in act XIV which shows Calisto with two servants climbing into Melibea's garden,where she is waiting for him with Lucrecia

Second illustration of act XIX of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
Scene of Tristán and Sosia removing the body of Calisto fallen beside the ladder

Second illustration of act XX of the Rome edition: Marcelo Silber, 1515 (colophon Stanislao Polono, Sevilla, 1502)
The scene of Melibea's suicide in which she throws herself from the tower while Pleberio and a female character watch the event. Note the prominence of the lock on the door of the tower to show that the door is locked. This image is of a simpler…