Philological notes about Nueva obra y breve en prosa y metro sobre la muerte del ilustre señor Adelantado D. Diego de Almagro

Abstract

A literary document, studied in Carmagnani (1961), with philological as well as linguistic perspectives is analized in this paper. Keys for text’s authorship of the text, with a historical and philological discussion, information about diplomatic aspects, general paleographic questions about the play, a brief linguistic feature analysis (seseo-ceceo, h- < f- lat. aspiration, archaic words, -s aspiration, rl > ll simplification, etc.) and, over all, specific paleographic questions, the strict text transcription and a scanned document copy.