Towards an unified complete census of the surviving copies of Celestina (I): on-line retrievable copies of editions in Spanish

• Published in: Celestinesca 2021-01, Vol.44, p.265-318
• Main Author: Amaranta Saguar García
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: censo de ediciones; censo de ejemplares
• ISSN: 0147-3085; 2695-7183
• DOI: 10.7203/Celestinesca.44.19435

In a time in which libraries keep uploading new catalogues online and updating the old ones, in which regional union catalogues do not stop bringing to light and making accessible collections that, otherwise, would go unnoticed by researchers, in which digital catalogues and metacatalogues allow looking up several collections distributed all over the world at the same time, rediscovering copies of Celestina lost or not recorded until now should not surprise anyone. These special circumstances  have  caused  that  maintaining  a  complete  and  up-to-date  census  of surviving copies of Celestina requires revising the above mentioned digital resources periodically, with the purpose of adding new copies, confirming the existence of others, and correcting the potential phantom copies  of the previous versions. This work aims to offer a starting point for a periodical revision of these sources by means of bringing together in writing and at the same place all the online traceable copies of editions in Spanish printed prior to its Inquisitorial prohibition, as of the 1st of November 2020.