| Commentary: |
Snow 1977, revised 2007: "This pleasant survey of the CSM's art, music and MSS makes no claim to originality. There are 16 full colour miniatures from cantigas 1, 2, 8, 10, 23, 42, 63, 94, 107, 108, 133, 142, 165, 167, 172, and 187, and CSM 144 appears on the dustjacket. The quality and clarity of these vary from acceptable to somewhat blurred. A few curiosities crop up: L.S. believes that Alfonso knew Arabic perfectly (p. 9); she says that Escurial MS T.j.1 has 200 poems (there are 193); and she repeats the long discredited view that the musical notation is rabbinical (p. 13). More care should have been taken in both text and clarity of reproductions." |
