La «"Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí" ab les "Cobles de la mort"»: A series of woodcuts in sixteen volumes from Cervera (circa 1730-1804)

Abstract

Abstract: Among the many editions of the «Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí» ab les «Cobles de la mort» published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Cervera, we examine sixteen that reproduce the same series of woodcuts depicting some scenes of the visionary pilgrim or the ghost of purgatory. The bibliographical descriptions, with a review of copies located in libraries around the world, is accompanied by facsimiles reproducing the series of woodcuts, the front page of fifteen editions and the preserved first page of a unique acephalous copy. This series is remarkable, both quantitatively and chronologically, for being the most repeated and most documented of all those printed in editions of these works from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Key words: University of Cervera, printed poetry, bibliography, iconography.