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- Title
Manuscript Matrix and Meaning in Castilian and Catalan Anthologies of Saints' Lives and Pious Romance.
- Authors
Francomano, Emily C.
- Abstract
Ms Escorial h-I-13, a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century Castilian prose compilation, has received a great deal of recent scholarly attention. While the Escorial codex is unique in Castilian literary history, providing the only manuscript witnesses of several romances, it shares many distinctive properties with two contemporary compilations in Catalan: Ms Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó Sant Cugat 83 and Ms Arxiu de la Corona d'Aragó Ripoll 155. The three compilations follow analogous principles of inclusion, consequently creating remarkably similar textual manuscript matrices that interlace hagiographic texts with romance. The three manuscript matrices also offer analogous models of interpretation. By surveying and comparing the three anthologies as related members of a distinct manuscript genre, this article analyses the relation of manuscript matrix and reception in both the Catalan and Castilian anthologies.
- Subjects
SPANISH prose literature; SPANISH literature; CATALAN literature; ANTHOLOGIES; MEDIEVAL romance literature; MANUSCRIPTS; SAINTS in literature; SAINTS
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2004, Vol 81, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.81.2.1