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Language Magnificat : cultura i literatura medievals. 2018. No. 05
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- The Lady Half-Devoured by a Dragon and the Iconography of Saint Margaret of Antioch : Interpreting an Anonymous Invención in the Cancionero general (11CG-517)(2018) Boase, RogerFollowing in the footsteps of Ian Macpherson, I offer an interpretation of an anonymous invención found in the Cancionero general (11CG-517) and the British Library Cancionero (LB1-251). I maintain that the image displayed by the jouster was inspired by the iconography of the virgin-martyr Saint Margaret of Antioch, and I propose a theory about the identity of the lady addressed and, with less certainty, about the identity of the jouster and the occasion when the invención was displayed, using Pinar?s Juego trobado as a tool of research and invoking a passage on the sinfulness of the fashion among ladies and damsels for wearing hooped petticoats in a treatise by Hernando de Talavera.
- El manuscrito del 'Cancionero de Baena' (PN1) : Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica(2018) Faulhaber, Charles B.; Perea Rodríguez, OscarThe present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex ofthe Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicologicalaspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the historical data,supports a conjecture that the manuscript probably belonged to Gonzalo de Beteta, an official of both Enrique IV andthe Catholic Kings. It would have passed from him to his grandson, Jorge de Beteta y Cárdenas, who gave it to the RealBiblioteca de El Escorial in 1576. The article then follows the vicissitudes of the manuscript from its disappearance fromthe Escorial at the beginning of the 19th c. until its sale in London in 1824 and its acquisition in 1836 by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, its current home. In passing, the article refutes the thesis that the manuscript would have belonged to the library of Isabel I in 1503 and would have been left by her, along with other books, to the Capilla Real of the cathedral of Granada, whence it would have passed to El Escorial.
- Salmos 32 : 11-36:7 y 78:25-81:2: nuevos fragmentos de la Biblia castellana romanceada del monasterio de Santa María de la Sisla(2018) Avenoza, GemmaThe study of archival collections from medieval religious orders has made it possible to locate a second fragment of amedieval Spanish Bible, from the Hieronymian monastery of Santa María de la Sisla (Toledo). It is a bifolia from the bookof Psalms that belonged to the same codex as the recently identified Ezekiel fragment (=S1). In this article the finding isreported, the liber tradens is described, specifying its meaning and value to ensure monastery rents, the fragments that ittransmits are given: part of a bifolia in parchment of the s. XIII and biblical bifolia that serves as cover, focusing especiallyon the description of this second fragment (= S2). Next, the relationships between S2 and Esc. I-I-3 are examined, afiliation hypothesis and, finally, a palaeographic transcription of the text are offered.
- El sirventès en la poesia catalana dels segles XIV-XV : un catàleg(2018) Tomàs, AlbertThe sirventes of the troubadour era has been broadly studied, but there are not overall explanations concerning theevolution of the sirventes genre in the Catalan-speaking lands of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This paperpropounds a catalogue of sirventesos concerning its historical development, the troubadour models, rhetorical andgrammatical treatises, and genre assignment in rubrics. Our catalogue contains thirty-one Catalan sirventesos, includingtwenty-eight extant items and three items lost. In some cases the literary motifs of the sirventes cross boundaries in aprocess of poetic hybridization with other moral genres which borrow out themes, images and rhetorical strategies fromthe sirventes. In order to reflect this complexity, our catalogue also includes an annex with twenty-seven texts that are notproperly sirventesos but, due to their idiosyncrasy, can be placed in the periphery of the genre.
- Joan Roís de Corella, La Istòria de Leànder y Hero : edizione critica con studio introduttivo(2018) Annicchiarico, AnnamariaThis contribution is a further partial anticipation of the critical edition of the mythological faules by Joan Roís de Corella(15th century) for Editorial Barcino, following a previous one also appeared in Magnificat CLM (3, 2016). It focuses onone of Corella's most mature and significant faules, as well as one of the most prestigious testimonies both of the presence of the myth of Hero and Leander in the Iberian 15th century, and of the peninsular reception of the Heroides. The paper has two parts. The first part, Introduction, summarizes the current situation of the studies related to the Istòria. Next, an analysis of the literary memory that supports the faula?s discursive construction is provided, aiming to demonstrate how it actualizes a game of mirroring, projections, refractions, intertextual references, and symbolic-allusive evocations that make res and characters the revival of a plurality of classical and medieval models. Such a revival becomes loaded of a new pathetic energy. Our analysis is based on certain thematic words and specific topical-rhetorical matrixes, reused either a lo profano or a lo divino, always within the idea of ?dying together" and of love beyond death. It focuses on the communication strategies through which this ficció sentimental?s text (a point of convergence for thematic, metaphorical and figural weaving, anchored to the Tristanian, lyrical-amorous, ausiasmarquiana, cancioneril and Passionist imagery of planctus virginis) transforms memory and reuses it into an invention. The second part of the paper is the critical edition of the text. Anticipated by the Criteria of Edition, it contains the Text, with footnotes concerning the constitutio textus, and the Critical Apparatus.
- Els manuscrits catalans de la Doctrina moral d?en Pacs(2018) Rovira Cerdà, HelenaThis paper analyses from a material and textual viewpoint the four preserved manuscripts containing the Doctrina moral,a work written in the first half of the 15th century by a man from Majorca from the Pacs family. The study of these copiesgives us new information about some of the most controversial aspects of this work, such as authorship and date. The twowitnesses owned by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are related to the Italian city of Naples, while the manuscript ofthe Biblioteca de Catalunya could have been in possession of a branch of the Pacs family, the Conilleres. The codex of theArxiu de la Corona d?Aragó, edited by Bofarull (1857), presents a more innovative copy, with many different lessons fromthe other three witnesses.
