Para a tradição textual daCrónica de 1344: dois manuscritos da versão original

TheCrónica Geral de Espanha de 1344is one of the most important historical works of the Iberian Middle Ages, but it presents also a complex and lacunar manuscript tradition. This work presents two new manuscripts of this chronicle, tracing its history and establishing its place in the manuscript tradition. The text of theCrónica de 1344copied in these two manuscripts, although fragmentary, is of great importance, since it covers the final part of the chronicle, precisely the least well known. The analysis of its text and the comparison with the other manuscripts of the chronicle and its sources reveals that these new testimonies contain a copy of the original version, of which, until now, no copies were known.