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The original spelling, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained, with the exceptionof apparent typographical errors which have been corrected.
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TIRANT LO BLANCH
A STUDY OF ITS AUTHORSHIPPRINCIPAL SOURCES AND HISTORICALSETTING
BY
JOSEPH A. VAETH, Ph.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN ROMANCE LANGUAGESIN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
New York
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
1918
All rights reserved
Approved for publication, on behalf of the Departmentof Romance Languages and Literatures of ColumbiaUniversity.
Henry Alfred Todd
New York, December, 1917.
TO
PROFESSOR RAYMOND WEEKS
WHOSE ENTHUSIASM, SCHOLARSHIP AND DEVOTION TO FRANCEHAVE BEEN OF SUCH FAR-REACHING INFLUENCE INTHE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDY OFROMANCE LANGUAGES IN AMERICA,THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
PREFACE
On my return to Columbia University in the fall of1914 for the purpose of continuing my studies, I consultedProfessor H.A. Todd in regard to available subjects fora doctoral dissertation. In the course of our conversationhe called my attention to a large volume which hadbeen presented to him by Mr. Archer M. Huntington.It was a facsimile copy of the first edition of the Catalanromance of chivalry, Tirant lo Blanch. Realizing thathere was an opportunity to become intimately acquaintedwith a work that was made well known, in name at least,by Cervantes i