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D. Empaytaz de Croome.
Albor: Mediaeval and Renaissance Dawn-Songs in the Iberian Peninsula.

Published Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International for the Dept. of Spanish & Spanish American Studies, University of London King’s College, 1980.
ISBN 0835705315.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: not stated.
Size: 169×251×9mm.
Page count: xv,90pp.
Main language: English; quotations given without translation.
Overall condition fair: the covers on this copy are a bit stained and grubby, a few dents and creases, some wear on the edges and corners; page edges foxed, some curling to the corners throughout; the spine is discoloured with age, but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £15.00
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[Astrologos paperback in print at $40.00]
Weight without packaging: 208g.

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Contents: Intro. — evening meeting — advantages of dawn meeting ror parting; Question of origins; Secular texts — related poems — Iberian dawn-songs proper; Religious texts; Dawn symbolism; Conclusions.
Appendices: Provençal alba; Dawn-serenading.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Indexes: First lines; General.

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