Abstract
<jats:p>The volume you hold in your hands is part of a work that has been published in two installments: first, an anthology edition already released, Genius and Wit of the Judeo-Andalusian Poet, Miguel/Daniel Leví de Barrios (Montilla, Córdoba, 1635 – Amsterdam, 1701; Málaga, UMA, 2024); and now, the paleographic and holographic reproduction most closely aligned with the author’s editorial intent, established critically on a documented basis. It is also complemented by an entire corpus of manuscripts, unpublished or little known until now. This is the work of a convert, or New Christian, who later continued practicing Judaism within the bilingual Sephardic community—Spanish and Portuguese, primarily—of Amsterdam, and who had already begun as a crypto-Jew, in an initiatory manner and with little theological foundation, in his native Montilla. It therefore offers the particular interest of the literary production of an ethno-religious minority, to which is added the use of a variety of Castilian and Portuguese distinct from that of the Iberian Peninsula, and quite distant from the Judeo-Spanish of his coreligionists expelled in 1492. Daniel Leví de Barrios composed approximately 1,300 poems out of the 1,800 written in that community during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—that is, 70%. Although in smaller proportion, the manuscript work of Leví de Barrios also represents a significant percentage within the corpus of this community as it has been estimated until now. The autograph works and the apographs of Miguel de Barrios, especially the one known as MS. 711 Lansdowne, have not—despite the fame and recognition the author has gained in the field of philology over the past two decades—been the subject of a detailed analysis of his handwriting.</jats:p>