Cervantes bibliographic mystery: Miguel de Cervantes’Romancero Universal of 1614

Abstract

The Council of Castile kept a record of the procedures approved in each session since the 16th century. All of them are preserved in the National Historical Archive. One of these procedures was the granting of licenses and privileges for the printing of books. In the case of Cervantes works, the title indicated in this register corresponds to the title that should appear in your "petition memorials. All but one: when reviewing the granting of the licence for the Viaje del Parnaso (1614), the licence is granted to the Romancero universal. A new Cervantes bibliographical mystery, which is related to a Romancero universal by Alonso Jerónimo Salas Barbadillo, which was granted a printing licence in 1613, but which was never printed.