| Commentary: |
Notes from Snow 1977: "C. presents a full and respectable paleographic transcription of the Castilian prose summaries of CSM 2-25, and provides valuable prefatory material which reviews the wide range of potential sources for these particular cantigas. C. finds the Keller-Linker article (1974) incomplete and sometimes inaccurate. He concludes that it is extremely difficult to determine the way in which the legends found their home in the CSM, but he appends to each prose account notes on the locations of medieval texts and analogues to it. These Alfonsine prose miracles are rarely translations of the verse text; they even add material not directly accounted for in it. An even more suggestive note is encountered in the biographical reference to Alfonso in the prose accompanying cantiga 10. A very worthwhile study which will surely be the basis for future work on these prose miracles." |
