Emily C. Francomano. "Manuscript Matrix and Meaning in Castilian and Catalan Anthologies of Saints’ Lives and Pious Romances." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 81.2 (2004): 139-53.
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 suggest analogous models of interpretation. By surveying and comparing the three anthologies as related members of a distinct manuscript genre, this article analyzes the relation of manuscript matrix and reception in both the Catalan and Castilian anthologies.
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