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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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'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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TABLE OF HEADINGS (The headings in the text are located immediately before the stanzas whose numbers are listed with them) Esta es oracion qu'el Arcipreste fizo a Dios quando comen