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Fagan, Patricia Claire, A critical edition of Martín Martínez Dampiés's Libro del Antichristo (Zaragoza, 1496), Tesi doctoral del Boston College (Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures), 2002, i + 404 ff.

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Amidst the myriad of medieval apocalyptic texts which depict the Antichrist and Judgment Day, exists a unique incunabulum housed in the New York Public Library: Martín Martínez Dampiés's Libro del Antichristo, Zaragoza, 1496. The dearth of attention to this incunabulum over several centuries reflects the frequent mistaken bibliographical references to its whereabouts, hence prompting the current investigation. The purpose of this study is to present a modern edition equipped with full critical apparatus, a paleographic examination of the NYPL incunabulum, and literary and iconographic analyses of the works contained in the Zaragozan 1496 edition. Special consideration is given to the arrangement of the four, separately-authored entities in the compendium: (1) Libro del Antichristo, (2) Libro del Judicio Postrimero, (3) Sermón de San Vicente, and (4) Epístola de Rabí Samuel embiada a Rabí Ysaac, respectively. The annotated text of Libro del Antichristo is preceded by an introductory chapter and followed by biblical and onomastic indices. The first section reviews the labyrinthine archival history of the 1496 edition. There are lurid tales of cathedral fires and bibliokleptomania, in addition to copious sources, including recent catalogues, which provide erroneous references. An appendix following the introduction rectifies 130 years of bibliographical inaccuracies. A codicological examination ensues. The physical analysis of the NYPL incunabulum includes a xylographic study. The majority of the woodcuts in the Libro del Antichristo is derived from a 1482 Strassburg block book—a key detail which aids in determining the literary and pictorial sources upon which Martínez Dampiés and his printer, Paul Hurus, relied. The final section of the introductory chapter examines the Antichrist and Judgment Day traditions presented in the four texts of the incunabulum. The originality of Martínez Dampiés's arrangement delivers an orchestrated, multi-faceted vision, commencing with the macroscopic (universal), and concluding with the microscopic (contemporary Iberia). The edition culminates with a focus on the religious milieu of the Peninsula in 1496, hence a product ripe for predicting catastrophic doom to non-believers at the apex of the Christian Reconquest.

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Religió - Teologia cristiana
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Notes

Ed. en microfitxes: Ann Arbor (Mich.), University Microfilms International, 2002, 5 mf.