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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Primary Sources

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Anthologies
Bibliographies
Chivalric Literature
Devotional Literature
Manuscript Databases
Publisher Series

Anthologies

The Cross and the Scroll: 1,000 years of Jewish-Hispanic literature by Ilan Stavans (Editor)
Call Number: PQ6056 .S37 2003
Crestomatía del español medieval by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (Editor)
Call Number: PQ6174.A3 M39 1976
An anthology of Spanish literature in English translation by Seymour Resnick and Jeanne Pasmantier (Editors)
Call Number: PQ6267.E1 R4 1958a

Manuscript Databases

Cantiga 200, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E Codex
Biblioteca de El Escorial MS B.I.2

Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
Manuscritos
Biblioteca del Escorial

Publisher Series

Bibliographies

The literature of Spain in English translation : a bibliography by Robert S. Rudder
Call Number: Z2694.T7 R83
Bibliography of Old Spanish texts by Charles B. Faulhaber
Call Number: Z2682 .B52 1984
Bibliotheca Hispanica Cronologia (Website) by BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA
Includes primary and secondary sources for authors from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries.

Chivalric Literature

Cifar and his family in front of Galapia
Bibliotheque nationale de France MS Spanish 36, f. 13

El Cid campeador. by Ramón Menéndez Pidal (Editor)
Call Number: PQ6366 .A2 1955
Poema de Fernan Gonzalez by D. Emilio Alarcos Llorach(Editor)
Call Number: PQ6420 .P54 1955
The Legendary History of Britain in Lope Garcia De Salazar's Libro De las Bienandanzas e Fortunas by Harvey L. Sharrer
Call Number: DA175 .L43
Libro del Caballero Zifar : códice de Paris.
Call Number: ND3399.C42 L53 1996
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL MSS

Devotional Literature

Las cantigas de Santa María
Call Number: PQ9189.A44 C3 2011
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL MSS. Two commentary volumes.
Cantigas de Santa María by Alfonso X, el Sabio
Call Number: PQ9189.A44 C3 1986
Cantigas de Santa Maria (Electronic Resource) by Alfonso X
Coat of Many Cultures: the story of Joseph in Spanish literature, 1200-1492 by Michael McGaha
Call Number: PQ6174.9.J6 C3 1997
ISBN: 0827605706
The electronic texts and concordances of the prose works of Alfonso X, El Sabio [electronic resource] by Lloyd Kasten, John Nitti, and Wilhelmina Jonxis-Henkemans.
Call Number: PQ6273.A2 A14 1997 CD-ROM
Located in Pius Media Collection
La miniatura medieval en Navarra by Soledad de Silva y Verástegui.
Call Number: ND3199 .S562 1988
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Thirty-two miniatures from the Book of hours of Joan II., queen of Navarre; a manuscript of the fourteenth century. [microform] by Henry Yates Thompson.
Call Number: MICROFILM 7354.6
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL