Bidspirit auction | CANCIONEIRO (The) de Cristóvão Borges.

CANCIONEIRO (The) de Cristóvão Borges. Braga. 1979. - CANCIONEIRO (The) de Cristóvão Borges . Edition and Notes by Arthur Lee-Francis Askins. Braga: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1979. X, 358 pp.; 275 mm. Critical edition of the 16th-century manuscript songbook known by the name of its owner, Cristóvão Borges, with introduction and notes by Arthur Lee-Francis Askins, published in the Textes collection of the Centre for Research on Renaissance Portugal, IV Section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études. The manuscript, datable to 1578, brings together lyric poetry in Portuguese and Castilian – sonnets, villancicos, and glosses – by various poets from the second half of the 16th century, including a version of the well-known paraphrase of the psalm Sobre os Rios que Vão por Babilónia me Achei , attributed to Camões and the subject of extensive critical notes in this edition. It is part of the set of 16th-century manuscript songbooks compiled by Askins, alongside the Cancioneiro de Évora (1965) and the Cancioneiro de Corte e de Magnates (1968), essential reference works for the study of Peninsular lyric poetry during the Renaissance. Esteemed and sought after ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate