Gallery Talk @Hispanic Society of America
The printer, Friedrich Biel, also known as Fadrique de Basilea, was active in Burgos, Spain, from 1485 to 1517. One of his most important surviving books is the earliest known edition of the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, more commonly called La Celestina.
The Hispanic Society’s copy of La Celestina had been in the collection of John Pierpont Morgan who, in 1909, loaned the volume to Archer M. Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society of America, who wished to publish a facsimile of the work. Upon the publication of the facsimile, Morgan gave the precious incunable as a gift to Huntington.
The Burgos edition has been the subject of an intense scholarly debate, much of it focused on the date of printing. Some scholars consider the edition to have been printed in 1499, as the printer’s device states, while others believe the edition to have been printed later, in 1501–1502.
Gallery talk:
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 11:00 am
Ms. Vanessa Pintado
Assistant Librarian
Ricardo Hernández
Head of Education and Public Programs
The Hispanic Society of America
613 West 155th Street
New York, NY 10032
(212) 926-2234 ext. 209
The Hispanic Society’s copy of La Celestina had been in the collection of John Pierpont Morgan who, in 1909, loaned the volume to Archer M. Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society of America, who wished to publish a facsimile of the work. Upon the publication of the facsimile, Morgan gave the precious incunable as a gift to Huntington.
The Burgos edition has been the subject of an intense scholarly debate, much of it focused on the date of printing. Some scholars consider the edition to have been printed in 1499, as the printer’s device states, while others believe the edition to have been printed later, in 1501–1502.
Gallery talk:
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 11:00 am
Ms. Vanessa Pintado
Assistant Librarian
Ricardo Hernández
Head of Education and Public Programs
The Hispanic Society of America
613 West 155th Street
New York, NY 10032
(212) 926-2234 ext. 209
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