On the writing and manuscript tradition of the Expositio del Tostado a Numeros (regarding a new testimony)
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Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Biblioteca Histórica
Marqués de Valdecilla, cod. 37, is a new manuscript containing
the commentary on the Book of Numbers by Alonso Fernández
de Madrigal, known as “el Tostado” (1410-1455). It was written
when the author was still alive. Heretofore the only known witnesses
were the manuscripts Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca,
Biblioteca General e Histórica, codd. 2500 and 2501, glossed and
annotated by the author himself. The new Complutense witness
proves that these autograph marginalia were inserted by the author
in two different stages. It also demonstrates three distinct phases in
the progressive composition of the work. The Complutense manuscript,
perhaps linked to Cardinal Cisneros’s interest on Fernández de Madrigal’works and biblical exegesis, belonged to the library
of San Ildefonso College (Alcalá). It seems to appear on two of its
earliest lists of books, written around 1512 and 1523. Surprisingly,
however, it could also appear on a list of books of San Bartolomé
College (Salamanca), written in 1550.
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