Rome (1515)
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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. 1342, BETA 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. 1342, BETA 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)