- Edited by James B.Larkin

Description:
The present edition of Atalaya de las coronicas, the first to be published of the entire text, is designed to provide an accurate, readable version of this important but hitherto-neglected work. The principal manuscript, on which the foliation is based, is Codex Egerton 287 of the British Library. While extensive cross-comparison has been made with other manuscripts of the work, variorum listings are limited to those which have a direct bearing on establishing an accurate and satisfactory reading of a passage. The running text has been relieved of the technical complications of paleographic transcription, but every effort has been made not to deform the fifteenth-century language of the original, including variant forms and spellings. Where necessary, separate Notes are supplied to help to explain the text, and a brief Glossary of unusual or difficult terms has been added.

An undertaking as extensive as the present one obviously owes much to its predecessors. The late Raul del Piero in 1970 produced a paleographic transcription of the first ten chapters, through the chronicle of Amalaric (fol. 31v, p. 13b of the present editon); in 1966 he supplied a reading of the ‘evil archpriest’ tale (fol. 110v, p. 48b), plus other useful commentaries. Inocencio Bombin, in his 1976 dissertation, carried the text through the reign of Ferdinand III of Castile (fol. 160r, p. 72a), and brought to light important information relative to sources of the entire Atalaya. It should be noted that Bombin’s work, to date unpublished and difficult to obtain, was not available until the present edition was nearing completion; even so, I am much indebted to it for having enlightened numerous textual problems, and for calling attention to details which might have been missed otherwise.
- From Preface


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface......I

Introduction......III

Atalaya de las Coronicas......1

Notes to the text......135

Glossaries......147

Selected Bibliography......153