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Although the Cobles de la Mort were printed with the Peregrinacio del Venturos Pelegri from the first complete extant edition (1635) until the twentieth century, several witnesses and data analyzed in this paper suggest the Cobles were published independently of the Peregrinacio in the first half of the sixteenth century. A record in the manuscript catalogues of the library of Hernando Colon confirms that in 1536 this bibliophile had already acquired a chapbook containing the Cobles. In addition, a fragment of the Libre de Senequa, an Occitan work of the thirteenth century, is cited in one of the paratexts included in a mid-sixteenth century manuscript copy of the Cobles. The presence of this Occitan source seems to relate the Cobles with the medieval tradition more than with the early modern literature. By comparing these elements with other sources, we deduce the existence of incunabula or postincunabula editions, currently missing, in which the Cobles were printed independently of the Peregrinacio. The...

Des de 1623, el gremi de llibreters de Barcelona, conegut com la Confraria de San Jeroni, gaudi d’una privativa per a vendre en aquesta ciutat la Peregrinacio del Venturos Pelegri, una de les obres en catala que va tenir major difusio impresa a l’Edat Moderna. Entre els anys 1718–1730, sota el regnat de Felip V, es produi un important canvi legislatiu que atorga a la Universitat de Cervera el privilegi per a publicar a Catalunya no nomes el Venturos Pelegri sino tambe altres manuals i obres d’us pedagogic. Tot considerant dades historiques com les que acabem d’indicar, aquest article estudia des d’un punt de vista bibliografic setze edicions impreses a Barcelona, Cervera o Manresa, les quals presenten parcialment les mateixes series xilografiques. Reproduim els gravats emprats en totes elles i establim algunes relacions oportunes a partir de l’analisi d’aquests elements grafics.