Tratado en defensa de virtuosas mugeres
Date
1441 - 1445 (15th Century)Date of the copy or printed book
1480 - 1500Location
CuencaAuthor(s)
Diego de Valera, 1412 1482(Author)
Features
Paper: YesGlosses: Yes
MLA Citation
Valera, Diego de. Tratado en defensa de virtuosas mugeres. BNE Mss/1341.
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Description
Diego de Valera (1412–1482) composed this treatise in and for the court of Queen María of Aragón (1403–1445), Queen of Castile and León and wife of John II of Castile and León (1405–1454). The final addressee is Queen Maria, but the second person to whom Valera addresses the text is a friend, maybe the same imaginary friend to whom he addresses some of his letters and other treatises.
Glosses
The manuscript has been prepared to receive glosses, although there are some pages with no glosses (Ø). This manuscript has a total of 61 glosses of which 34 constitute microbiographies.
1r = Ø; 1v = 1 (Delete); 2r = 1 (Ia sea mi tratado de tan sinple materia); 2v = 3 (prenaso; pegasea fuente; febica lira); 3r = 1 (cantos musanos); 3v, 4r, 4v = Ø; 5r = 2 (no querays ser fecho como el cauallo y el mulo; señalada es la luz del tu bulto); 5v = 2 (Ca no es ella poderosa; Que las virtudes); 6r = 5 (Atalante; Camila; Claudia Vestal; Minerba; Marçia); [references pile up on folio 6v and glosses do not fit in this folio alone, so they continue referring to this folio until fol. 9r] 6v: 4 (Clodia romana; Erifola Sebila; Armonia; Intertitle between these glosses and those that follow: “Delas castas”; Lucreçia); 7r = 4 (Penelope; Porçia; Iulia; Cornelia); 7v = 4 (Antonia; Tamaris; Artemissa; Argia); 8r = 5 (Supliçia; Ipol[it]a; La muger del rrey amete de Tesalia; Las mugeres delos tudescos; Las nobles dueñas yndianas); 8v = 5 (El fecho de las nobles mugeres delos demenja; Intertítulo entre glosas: “Delas judias”; Sarra; Cipora; Debora; Ester); 9r = 7 (Tamar; Marian; La madre de sanson; Elisabet; Ana; [references on fol. 7r]; Rabeca; Rachel); 9v = 2 (Remembrare yo aqui debe de contar muchas castas y sanctas vírgenes…; Honze mill virgines); [Reference on fol. 7v]; 10r = 1 (Qual de las leyes); Reference on fol. 8r; 10v = 4 (Prouidençia; Fortuna; Fados; [Reference on fol. 8v] Canadas ondas delete); [reference on fol. 9r] 11r = 1 (Que tentada no sea); [Reference on fol. 11r] 11v = 3 (exordio; [reference on fol. 11v] paresçe [≠ ser]; el filosofo); 12r, 12v = Ø; 13r = 2 (Del tu libro mayor [Ovidius]; Declaras mugeres [Boccaccio]); 13v = 3 (Pues quando yo bien pienso; O pasión; Pero ya quanta); 14 r = Ø; 14v = 1 (Inffançia).