in. — Communications from Spanish Cancioneros. 



The Works of Juan de Valtierra. 



The poems of Juan de Valtierra are preserved, with one exception 

 so far as now known, i exclusively in the cancionero of the Royal 

 Library at Madrid which bears the mark 2— F— 5 (antiguo vii— A— 3), 

 but which will here be termed X^ in order to distinguish it from 

 a number of other manuscripts bearing the same signature 2— F^S.^ 

 hi the index of the contents of this collection offered in the Can- 

 cionero de Baena (O), p. Ixxxvi, and copied in Ticknor-Julius ii 526, 

 ten compositions are assigned to Valtierra, while Amador de los 

 Rios (Historia 6, 464, note 2) credits him with only eight, two in 

 Castilian and six in Catalan. More accurate, as might be expected, 

 is the information furnished by Mild y Fontanals (Obras completas, 

 3, 193, note): Valtierra, del qual en un cansoner castella hi ha nou 

 obras anomenadas canciones y dezires, sis d'ellas en catala, una ab 

 lo titol de " Via fora sacramental," y altre ab lo de " la confessio." 

 Though pointed out by these Spanish critics, the Catalan texts of 

 our cancionero are not mentioned by J. Masso Torrents in his 

 xManuscritos catalanes de la Bibhoteca de S. M. (1888).'^ In the 

 partial edition of Xi by Perez Gomez Nieva (hereafter referred to 

 by Nieva),* the uncritical character of which need not occupy us 

 here,'' the poems in Catalan are not included, though the existence 

 of those by Valtierra is referred to (p. 293) in a foot-note to the 

 three other songs of this writer, hi view, therefore, of the fact 

 that the Catalan compositions of Valtierra are still practically un- 



^ This is the Catalan poem found in the Cancionero de Zaragoza 

 (hereafter designated CZ) fol. 116, and printed on p. 68 of the edition 

 by Baselga y Ramirez (Zaragoza 1896). 



- Regarding the designation X% first adopted by Mussafia, Per la 

 bibliogralia dei Cancioneros spagnuoli, see my Cancionero Gallego-Caste- 

 lliano p. 276, and Revue Hispaniqne 16, 296 ff. 



* Cf. the Nota adicional p. 33. 



■* Coleccion de poesias de un Cancionero inedito del sigio xv etc. 

 Madrid 1884. 



^ See the review of this publication by Morel-Fatio in Revue Critique 

 1885, p. 491. 



