Appendix A - Editions of the Cantigas profanas

Summary

The studies made of Alfonso's poetry have had recourse to different editions, as a result of which the numbering in the studies varies often. For the CSM, Walter Mettmann has established the standard numbering today, based on MS E, and his table of equivalences was printed in his edition of 1959 (vol. 1) and reprinted in the later edition of 1986 (vol. 1, pp. 35–40). Mettmann's numbering is now considered definitive and is used throughout this bibliography.

This appendix attempts to organize the various editions of Alfonso's cantigas profanas since this is where readers of relevant articles will find greatest differences. In column 1, the numbers are those of the manuscript once owned by Colocci and indexed by Brancuti, now in Lisbon's Biblioteca Nacional. It is often referred to as Colocci-Brancuti but I have used CBN to designate it in this Appendix. Some of the same poems appear in Vatican MS 4803, known commonly as the Cancioneiro da Vaticana, twice edited in the nineteenth century (by Monaci in 1875 and by Braga in 1878, see item 73). There is a facsimile of CV, issued in 1973 by the Centro de Estudos Filológicos, with a preface by F. Lindley Cintra (see item 581). These are the numbers in column 2.

In 1965 Manuel Rodrigues Lapa gave us his edition of the cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer which he gathered from all the cancioneiros. These are generally well edited and a second edition was printed in 1970 in which some of Alfonso's poems receive new numbers.