World Languages and Cultures Publications World Languages and Cultures 1990 A Fourteenth-Century Spanish Life of Saint Lawrence: Madrid, B.N. 10252 Dawn Bratsch-Prince Iowa State University,
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[email protected]. A Fourteenth-Century Spanish Life of Saint Lawrence: Madrid, B.N. 10252 Abstract [T]odos aquellos que son christianos deven oyr e entender las vidas e las pasiones de los santos martires, en tal que tomen ende alguna fazafia. Ca las fazafias d'aquellos que grandes martirios sufrieron por la ley de Dios tener e guardar nos puede en derecha carrera. E por esto, vos dezimos que deve omne de grado oyr e entender las vidas e las pasiones de los santos martires, ca por Nuestro Senor veo agora pocos martires prender muerte. B.N., MS 10252, f. 96ra With these words, the Castilian compiler of the Ystoria de santos explicitly states his reason for collecting and recounting the forty-eight holy lives contained in this volume: his audience should follow the examples contained therein, i.e., "que tomen ende alguna fazafia.