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El Liber Regum y la materia de Troya

2016; University of Santiago de Compostela; Volume: 16; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1484/j.troia.5.112822

2507-0495

Francisco Bautista,

Classical Studies and Legal History

This article offers a new evaluation of the textual tradition of the Libro de las generaciones y linajes de los reyes (or Liber regum) and specially the section devoted to Trojan history. Among the versions of this work, only the so-called Libro de las generaciones (c. 1256) was known to have this section. Here, it is presented a complete witness of a previous version, produced in Toledo (c. 1220), which contains also this part. It is argued that in fact the Trojan narrative was already present in the original Libro de las generaciones y linajes de los reyes (c. 1205), so this would be the first vernacular narrative on Troy written in the Iberian peninsula. The second part of the article is devoted to a version of the Libro de las generaciones y linajes de los reyes preserved in an incomplete manuscript, which contains an expanded narrative of the Trojan section. It is based on the De excidio Troiae and it is connected to a particular branch of the textual tradition. Arguments on its date and location are given, as well as an edition of the fragment that has survived.