74 H. R. Laug, 



known, ^ and that those in Castihan are printed in Nieva m a most 

 defective manner, I have thoug^ht it fitting to present here a first 

 edition of them, 2 based npon a copy made by me last summer, not 

 so much because of any superior assthetical merit they can claim 

 over much of the contemporary verse, but because, like the very 

 collection itself in which they have come down to us, they bear 

 testimony to that unity of literary interests of the three nations of 

 the Spanish Peninsula in the fifteenth century which resulted in 

 the formation of a new and truly national lyric style. ^ This aspect 

 of Valtierra's art will gain in point if we consider that one of his 

 songs appears to ha\'e been composed in the Galician idiom. * 



Very little is known of Juan de Valtierra further than that he 

 was a native of Navarre, and a squire by profession, who lived in 

 the first half of the fifteenth century. ^ In 1425 we .find him as 

 one of the witnesses to the compact between Castile and Aragon, 

 by virtue of which the Infante D. Enrique was set free by his 

 brother D. Juan, King of Navarre. ^ 



In addition to the verse of Valtierra, I shall publish here a hith- 

 erto unnoticed Catalan composition by Pedro de Santa Fe, — the 

 only other Catalan text contained in our cancionero — which shows 

 that this Aragonese poet, represented in the same manuscript by 

 thirty-six compositions in Castilian and two in Galician,'' also attuned 

 three languages to his lyre. 



' I have unfortunately not been able to consult the Biblioteca del 

 •• Ateneo Barcelones." Cataleg dels mannscrits format per J. Masso 

 Torrents 1902. 



- I have omitted one canrioi:. consisting of an estribillo and one stanza, 

 wliicli in our ms. stands on fol. 69 v<>, immediately after no. vi of this 

 article, but which in the CZ. fol. 108 v. (p. 56—7) and the Can^oner 

 d'Amor of the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris (No. 595, fol. 94 v®), where 

 it has five stanzas, is more correctly assigned to Luis de Vilarasa. Cf. 

 Mila y Fontanals, Obras 3, p. 175. — A comparison of our text with that 

 of the CZ. shows the following variations : 2 que omitted— Yo^ que leal a. 

 ;-3 digan — quants me nomeraran 4 Hequiscat 6 non — viura y ma mort 

 8 dons — pus 1. m. 9 que r. non d. puys — amant 10 huylls 11 prop que per 

 mi dir poran. * Cf. Cane. G-all.-Castelli. p. xvi. 



* See below the note to no. ii of this article. 



5 See Amador de los Eios, Historia 6, p. 474; Mila, Obras 3. 193.— 

 The only personage bj^ the name of Valtierra mentioned in Latassa. 

 Biblioteca de escritores aragoneses (Zaragoza 1884—6) is Bishop Juan 

 de Valtierra. who died in 1433. 



" Zurita, Anales de Aragon, vol. iii. ano 1425, c. 38. 



^ See Cane. Gall.-Castelh. nos. Ixii and Ixiii. 



