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First page of Álvarez Gómez's edition of Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_.

In the first article of vol. 8 (2026), Daniel Álvarez Gómez (U Europaea, Andorra) edits and studies Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation into Latin of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_ . doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Call for paper of Translat Library, volume 8 (2026)

Call for paper of Translat Library, volume 8 (2026)

We are now accepting submissions for volume 8 (2026).

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As 2025 draws to a close, let’s take a look at the research Translat Library has published over the past year. 👇👇👇

Front page of La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión. Por otro nombre: Peste del Puerto

In vol. 7, no. 5, Paulina León (UC Berkeley), @sierramatute.bsky.social (Baruch C), and John Slater (Colorado State U) study and edit a pamphlet that parodies Don Quixote to intervene in the dispute surrounding the 1680 epidemic outbreak in El Puerto de Santa María. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

A Fifteenth-Century Warmian Reworking of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine GIOVANNI CASCIO Università degli Studi di Messina ABSTRACT: This article examines a reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s Liber sine nomine transmitted in a group of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscripts of German provenance—namely, Gdańsk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1947; Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1260; and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 5354. The article brings to light the mechanisms of this rewriting—in which Italy and the principal Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch’s epistles Sine nomine are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia—as well as its likely ideological aims. The study also considers the possible origin of this textual reworking and the historical and cultural context in which it may be situated. KEYWORDS: Petrarch, Liber sine nomine, Prussia, Warmia, Olsztyn, Textual Reworking, Textual Criticism. The Liber sine nomine (Book without a name; cited as Sine nom.),1 a collection of nineteen letters written from 1341 to the late 1350s but not assembled until the end of 1359 or early 1361

In vol. 7, no. 4, Giovanni Cascio (U di Messina) studies an intriguing reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s "Liber sine
nomine" in which Italy and the main Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch's epistles are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Manuscript Letter edited and studied by Montserrat Ferrer

In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Image of royal decree sent to the City of Valencia outlining the protocol for mourning Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain (1584–1611)

In TL 7.2, Paula Plastić (U of Adelaide) edits & studies a copy of a royal decree sent to the City of Valencia outlining the protocol for mourning Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain (1584–1611)—a decree that contributed to the construction of the late queen’s public image. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Our first issue of 2025 marks a milestone—our debut publication in French! In it Albert Tomàs Monsó (Sorbonne U) studies the ca. 1383 anonymous medieval Catalan translation of The City of God and edits book VI.

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It is time to recap the work we have published during 2024. Manuscripts, translations, glosses, fragments, early editions, unpublished texts, and more. 👇👇👇

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An fragment of Ovid's text that had been reused in the binding of a later manuscript. The manuscript was visibly cut to be inserted in the binding. The text is organized in three uneven columns. It features probae pennae.

In the last article of vol. 6 Josep Pujol (U Autònoma de Barcelona) studies a fragment of a 13th-C. French manuscript of Ovid’s Heroides that had been reused in the binding of a later manuscript. The fragments include Ovid's text, an accessus, a marginal commentary, and interlinear glosses.

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Call for Papers: Translat Library, vol. 7 (2025)

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3) In vol. 6, n. 6, Javier Lorenzo (East Carolina U) studies the transmission of Gregorio Hernández de Velasco's 16th-C. Spanish translation of Jacopo Sannazaro's 'De partu Virginis.' doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

2) In vol. 6, n. 5, Maria Teresa Laneri (U di Sassari) describes a fourteenth-century manuscript (Alghero, Biblioteca Comunale «Rafael Sari», ms. 58) containing works by Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, the pseudo-Virgilian 'Moretum,' and two anonymous poems. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

1) TL, 6.4, William M. Barton (U Innsbruck) edits & translates a letter in ancient Greek & Latin by the Valencian Hellenist Vicente Mariner (1617), which documents his efforts to publish Mariner's translations of Byzantine Greek. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

While were were absent from here, we published three additional notes: