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Cover 1 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 List of Figures 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction: ‘the king makes a book’ 16 1. Alfonso X, his Literary Patronage, and the Verdict of Historians 46 2. Alfonso in his Texts: literary models and royal authorship 90 3. Reality, Politics, and Precedent in Images of Alfonso 112 4. Codices Laid Out for a King: the appearance and production of Alfonsine manuscripts 154 5. The Circulation of Alfonsine Texts: astrological works and chronicles 186 Concluding Remarks 216 Manuscript Sources 222 Index 226 List of Figures 12 Figure 1: Alfonso, wearing the livery of the royal Order of Santa María de la Estrella, with scribes, singers, and musicians. Cantigas, códice rico, Escorial MS T.I.1, fol. 5r. © Patrimonio Nacional 122 Figure 2: Type and anti-type: the early years of Nebuchadnezzar (below), whose life prefigures that of Alfonso (above). General estoria IV, BAV Urb. Lat. 539, fol. 2v. Reproduced by permission of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, with all rights reserve 128 Figure 3: A scribe writes out a treatise on games played with dice on the orders of Alfonso and supervised by his agent. Libro de los juegos (Libro de los dados), Escorial T.I.6, f

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Kennedy, Kirstin;

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