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The distribution of the contents is as follows : 
hoja. Portada. Title: Poesias 1 1 barias 1 1 y Recreacion 
1 1 de buenos In-j [ genios. Verso, blank. 
2^ hoja. Escudo del Marques del Valle, hecho con pluma. 
Verso, blank. 
hoja. Romance a hernan Cortes, which continues to the 
verso of the 4^ hoja. 
5^ hoja, blank. 
6^ hoja — 8^ hoja. Tabla, in two columns. 
9^ hoja. Soneto al Marques del Valle. Verso, blank. 
lO"" hoja. Soneto al Marques del Valle. Verso, blank. 
11^ hoja, r. and v., Romance al Marques ofreciendole este 
libro. 
Folio 1, falta. 
Ff. 2 — 90 V., romances; ff. 91 — 92 r., garauanda; if. 92 r. — 96 
V., romances; ff. 96 v. — 97 v., satira; ff. 98 r. — 123 v., ro- 
mances; ff. 124 r. — 139 V., sonetos; f. 140, glosa; ff. 141 r. — 
142 V., canciones; ff. 143 r. — 145 v., carta; ff. 146 r. — 147 v., 
sonetos; ff. 148 r. — 151 v., letras; ff. 151 v. — 152 r., glosa; ff. 
152 V. — 169 r., romances; ff. 169 v., blank; ff. 170 r. — 179 r.. 
La uida del picaro; ff. 179 v., blank; ff. 180 r. — 181 v., glosa. 
FIN. ff. 182 r. — 184 r., romances. 3 hojas en bianco. 
For his material for the romances the compiler drew freely 
either on the Romancero General or on the separate parts of 
that collection. Practically all of the hitherto published ro- 
mances contained in the manuscript are to be found in the 
1604 edition of the Romancero General, chiefly in the first 
three parts. Some, however, are found in the twelfth part, 
thus making it probable that it was the 1604 edition, or its 
reprint, the 1614 edition, to which he had recourse. For the 
romances, the sonnets, and other compositions unpublished at 
the date of compilation he had to rely, presumably, on manu- 
script copies, since none of them, so far as the writer has been 
able to discover, appears in print before the eighteenth cen- 
tury. 
When the reader compares the anthology of our anonymous 
compiler with others of the seventeenth century, either in 
print or in manuscript, he is at once impressed with the ex- 
cellence of choice displayed in the selections that make up the 
volume. The collection is singularly free from certain types 
