Bidspirit auction | CANCIONEIRO da Ajuda. Lisboa. 1990.

CANCIONEIRO da Ajuda. Lisboa. 1990. - CANCIONEIRO da Ajuda . Edição de Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos. Reimpressão da edição de Halle (1904) acrescentada de um prefácio de Ivo Castro e do glossário das cantigas. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 1990. 2 v.; 250 mm. Third reprint of the critical and annotated edition by Carolina Michaelis de Vasconcelos, originally published in Halle in 1904 and previously reprinted in 1966 and 1979, with the addition of a preface by Ivo Castro and the glossary of songs published in Revista Lusitana (vol. XXIII). Facsimile edition on bible paper. Carolina Wilhelma Michaelis de Vasconcelos (Berlin, 1851 - Porto, 1925), a self-taught philologist and Romance scholar, married the Portuguese archaeologist Joaquim de Vasconcelos in 1876 and settled in Portugal, becoming the first woman to teach at a Portuguese university – at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra, from 1912. Her monumental edition of the Cancioneiro da Ajuda constitutes her major work, the result of decades of research on medieval Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric poetry. The Ajuda Songbook is the oldest of the Galician-Portuguese secular songbooks, preserved in the Library of the Ajuda Palace in Lisbon. It is a parchment codex, probably dating from the last quarter of the 13th century, written by three different hands and containing 310 poems – almost exclusively love songs – with spaces reserved for illuminations and musical notation that were never completed. The first, rudimentary edition was published in 1823; the critical edition by Carolina Michaelis, with an exhaustive introduction, notes, and glossary distributed across two volumes, remains the fundamental reference instrument for the study of Portuguese troubadour lyric poetry. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate