| Commentary: |
Notes from Snow 1977, no. 34: "The Royal Academy requested V. to write this exposition of the CSM before its own edition was ready. He may have consulted the MSS but relies heavily on Milà and others. Claims the CSM are to Portuguese literature what the Poema de Mio Cid is to Castilian. Rambling, prolix, and digressive throughout. It did make better known, at the time of its publication, certain cantigas: 103, 3, 122, 283, 84, 54, 135, 128, 208, 104, 148, 155, 188, 196, 153, 162, 72, 141, 312, 55, 67, 38, 238, 255, 215, and 221. V. clearly prefers the narrative poems to the purely lyric loores which are disavowed without discussion. Advances the idea that Alfonso was both editor and contributor and that he used diverse sources (reproving, in this aspect, Amador [1863])." |
