THE ARTHURIAN NOVELS IN CASTILE AND PORTUGAL: "LANCELOT"1
THE poets of the Cancionero de Baena frequently bracket Lancelot, Tristan and Amadis as types of
____________________EARLY EDITIONS: El libro de Galaz, fragment, in Demanda del Sancto Grial, capp. 373-90; Lanzarote, en castellano, 1528 (?) ( Clemencin , Don Quijote, iii. p. 457, notas); Artus, 1501 (?).
REPRINTS: Portugalliæ Monumenta Historica.--Scriptores, i., ed. Herculano, Lisbon, 1860 ( Nobiliario); R. Menéndez Pidal, La Crónica Generat de 1404, in Revista de Archivos, 1903; Bonilla, Leyendas do Wagner, Appendix (1, fols. 119r-121V: Lancelot at the tomb of King Galahad; 2. fols. 261r-266v: Gawain and the Broken Sword; 3, fols. 281r-285v: Gawain at Corbenic;--from MS. 9611); O. Klob, in Zeisschrift für rom. Phil., xxvi. (fol. 105r: Lancelot at Gorre; fol. 310v: Lancelot and Pelles' daughter). Fols. 352-5 are reprinted in Revista de Filología Española, xi. ( 1924). A collation with the Vulgate has been promised by Bonilla. and an edition by E. de Laiglesia.
CRITICISM: Varnhagen, Cancioneirinho de trovas antigas; H. O. Sommer , in Romania, xxxvi.; O. Klob, in Zeitschrift für rom. Phil., xxvi. p. 191. I also use my own summary of the MS. 9611, and transcript of fols. 871-911; which has recently been described by P. Bohigas Balaguer , El Lanzarote español del manuscrito 9611 de la Biblioteca Nacional, in Revista do Filología Española, xi. ( 1924), pp. 282-97. Cf. also Menéndez y Pelayo, Antologia, xii. pp. 473-6; E. de Laiglesia, "Tras hijuelos habia el rey", in Revista Critica Hispano-Americana, iii. pp. 3-56; and my "Adventure of the Cerf au Pied Blanc," in Modern Language Review, xviii. ( 1923) pp. 436-48, and works there cited.
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Book title: The Arthurian Legend in the Literatures of the Spanish Peninsula.
Contributors: William J. Entwistle - Author.
Publisher: Phaeton Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1975.
Page number: 190.
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