Libro de Buen Amor 9781400870967

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Table of Headings
Introduction
Preamble
The Present Edition
The Poetry
Bibliography
Text
Appendix
Spelling Key
Glossary

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LIBRO DE BUEN Ai}fOR

Juan Ruiz

Libro de 73uen A mor Edited, with an Introduction and English Paraphrase, by

Raymond S. Willis

Princeton University Press

Copyright © 1972 by Princeton University Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

LCC: 79-13434-9 ISBN: 0-69 I -06086-x This book has been composed

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Linotype Caslon Old Face Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press Princeton, New Jersey

'To M. O. W. With buen amor

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN AN attempt to carry out Juan Ruiz's design to delight his listeners with the beauty of his text, I have dispensed with the distracting encumbrances of variants and notes to the text, and accordingly with footnotes in the Introduction. This has, however, the disadvantage of preventing me from acknowledging, with specific reference, the indispensable guidance and instruction that I have received from my predecessors in the field of Ruizian studies. I therefore take this opportunity to acknowledge my indebtedness and to express my gratitude to them all, from anonymous medi­ eval readers, who left precious marginalia, to the scholars of today. I wish in particular to thank my friends, my colleagues, and my students, who have generously given me their counsel. Their names are too numerous to mention, but they will always remain in my memory.

Princeton July igji

CONTENTS Table of Headings Introduction Preamble The Present Edition The Poetry Bibliography

Text Appendix Spelling Key Glossary

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