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AFONSO X. CANTIGAS de Santa Maria / editadas por Walter Mettmann. Coimbra. 1959-1972. - AFONSO X CANTIGAS de Santa Maria / editadas por Walter Mettmann . Coimbra: Por Ordem da Universidade, 1959-1972. 4 v.; 260 mm. A critical edition of the Cantigas de Santa Maria , the most extensive collection of religious lyric poetry in Galician-Portuguese from the Middle Ages, bringing together around 420 compositions dedicated to the Virgin Mary, compiled under the patronage of Alfonso X of Castile, the Wise, in the second half of the 13th century. It is also one of the main monuments of medieval European music, given the musical notation that accompanies a large part of the songs in the original manuscripts. This edition, prepared by Walter Mettmann and published by the University of Coimbra between 1959 and 1972 in four volumes (three of critical text, based primarily on Codex E of El Escorial, the most complete of the four surviving manuscripts, and a fourth of glossary), constitutes the reference edition of the text, still widely used today by scholars of medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate