In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

In TL 7.2, Paula Plastić (U of Adelaide) edits & studies a copy of a royal decree sent to the City of Valencia outlining the protocol for mourning Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain (1584–1611)—a decree that contributed to the construction of the late queen’s public image. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Our first issue of 2025 marks a milestone—our debut publication in French! In it Albert Tomàs Monsó (Sorbonne U) studies the ca. 1383 anonymous medieval Catalan translation of The City of God and edits book VI. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

It is time to recap the work we have published during 2024. Manuscripts, translations, glosses, fragments, early editions, unpublished texts, and more. 👇👇👇

In the last article of vol. 6 Josep Pujol (U Autònoma de Barcelona) studies a fragment of a 13th-C. French manuscript of Ovid’s Heroides that had been reused in the binding of a later manuscript. The fragments include Ovid's text, an accessus, a marginal commentary, and interlinear glosses.

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

Call for Papers: Translat Library, vol. 7 (2025) tinyurl.com/Translat-Library-CFP-2025

3) In vol. 6, n. 6, Javier Lorenzo (East Carolina U) studies the transmission of Gregorio Hernández de Velasco's 16th-C. Spanish translation of Jacopo Sannazaro's 'De partu Virginis.' doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

2) In vol. 6, n. 5, Maria Teresa Laneri (U di Sassari) describes a fourteenth-century manuscript (Alghero, Biblioteca Comunale «Rafael Sari», ms. 58) containing works by Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, the pseudo-Virgilian 'Moretum,' and two anonymous poems. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

1) TL, 6.4, William M. Barton (U Innsbruck) edits & translates a letter in ancient Greek & Latin by the Valencian Hellenist Vicente Mariner (1617), which documents his efforts to publish Mariner's translations of Byzantine Greek. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

While were were absent from here, we published three additional notes:

Just published! In vol. 6, no 7, Marta Materni (Università della Tuscia) edits and studies a newly identified fragment of Aimon de Varennes’ /Roman de Florimont/ discovered in 2020 as a guard leaf of a 15th-C. manuscript (Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. 1034). doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

In vol. 6, no. 3, Jacopo Pesaresi (U Bologna) unearths a 15th-C. epic poem linked to the Rimini court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

New article (by Alexander Fidora, ICREA-UAB) on the origin and significance of one of the few examples of reception of rabbinic literature in medieval Catalan, the fragment titled “De sacrefiçis,” at the Biblioteca del Cabildo, Burgo de Osma doi.org/10.7275/tl.1...

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In the first issue of vol. 6, Clara Pascual-Argente (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) identifies the first known reference to the story of Floire and Blancheflor in a Carolingian context in Castile (ca. 1348). Come and take a look: doi.org/10.7275/tl.1981

As we are about to bid farewell to 2023, we would like to take a moment to recap the amazing work we have published this year.🧵👇

In the last article of vol. 5, Miriam Cabré and Sadurní Martí (Universitat de Girona) identify a previously unknown fragmentary songbook at the Archives of Barcelona Cathedral. It transmits 17 troubadour poems, mainly the work of Peire Cardenal. doi.org/10.7275/tl.1873

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