[2] The Archpriest’s poems are preserved in three ancient manuscripts known respectively as the Gayoso, Toledo, and Salamanca MSS. (1) The Gayoso MS. was finished on Thursday, July 23, 1389; it formerly belonged to Benito Martínez Gayoso, came into the possession of Tomás Antonio Sánchez on May 12, 1787, and is now in the library of the Royal Spanish Academy at Madrid. (2) The Toledo MS., which belongs to the same period, has been transferred from the library of Toledo Cathedral to the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid. (3) The Salamanca MS., formerly in the library of the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé at Salamanca, is now in the Royal Library at Madrid: though somewhat later in date than the Gayoso and Toledo MSS., it is more carefully written, and the text is less incomplete. [3] In a contribution to the _Jahrbücher der Literatur_ (Wien, 1831-2), vols. iv., pp. 234-264; lvi., pp. 239-266; lvii., pp. 169-200; lviii., pp. 220-268; lix., pp. 25-50. See the reprint in Ferdinand Wolf, _Studien zur Geschichte der spanischen und portugiesischen Nationalliteratur_ (Berlin, 1859). [4] Interpone tuis interdum gaudia curis, Ut possis animo quemvis sufferre laborem.—_Disticha_, iii. 6. [5] In _Letters from an English Traveller in Spain, in 1778, on the origin and progress of Poetry in that Kingdom_ (London, 1781). This work was published anonymously by John Talbot Dillon, who acknowledges his ‘particular obligations’ to the works of Luis José Velázquez, López de Sedano, and Sarmiento. [6] _Romancero General, ó Colección de romances castellanos anteriores al siglo XVIII. recogidos, ordenados, clasificados y anotados por Don Agustín Durán_ (Madrid, 1849-1851). This collection forms vol. x. and vol. xvi. of the _Biblioteca de Autores Españoles_. _Primavera y Flor de romances publicada con una introducción y notas por D. Fernando José Wolf y D. Conrado Hofmann_ (Berlin, 1856). Throughout the present lecture the references to the _Primavera_ are to the second enlarged edition issued by Sr. Menéndez y Pelayo at Madrid in 1899-1900. [7] _Sammlung der besten, alten Spanischen Historischen, Ritter- und Maurischen Romanzen. Geordnet und mit Anmerkungen und einer Einleitung versehen von Ch. B. Depping_ (Altenburg und Leipzig, 1817). [8] In the _Avertissement_ to _Le Cid_ (editions of 1648-56), Corneille quotes two ballads from the _Romancero general_: (_a_) Delante el rey de León Doña Jimena una tarde... (_b_) Á Jimena y á Rodrigo prendió el rey palabra y mano. They are given in Durán, Nos. 735 and 739. [9] _Traitté de l’origine des romans_, preceding Segrais’ _Zayde, Histoire Espagnole_ (Paris, 1671), p. 51. [10] _Primavera_ (Apéndices), No. 17. [11] _Ibid._ (Apéndices), No. 18. [12] _Primavera_, No. 5; Durán, No. 599. [13] _Anseis von Karthago._ _Herausgegeben von Johann Alton_, 194ste Publication des Litterarischen Vereins in Stuttgart. (Tübingen, 1892.) [14] _Primavera_, No. 5_a_; Durán, No. 602.