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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt:...confirmat--Gundisalvo Salvatores confirmat.--Fredinando Rodris confirmat.--Gutser Gundisalvex confirmat.--Rui Didas confirmat.--lohan Pelagex confirmat.--Rodrico Guterres notavif The signature here, Gelvira, is also of much interest, as this is the Elvira, sister of the hing Sancho, who was. deprived of the city of Toro by her brother, which city she had received from hing Ferdinand, herfather, in his unwise division of the Spanish crown. (See also lines 20 and 26o, notes. ) 398 M: torres (P: tierras first and erased) q. There is an erasure at the point where torres should stand in the verse. Ahilon, the modern АyШn, a small town on the stream of the same name. It is in the present province of Segovia, with 1043 inhabitants. P: a Шoп. 402 S,D: (405) mio Cid yva. M:Ala. Figeruela in the Cr. Gen.: Segueruela. Cr. del Cid.: Figueruela. As the Cid had now crossed the Duero it must have stood on the left banh or near the river. 399 S,D:(yoí)Pasó. J:Passó. M:q; fines. Aleobiella, small town of the province of Soria (population 313). It is the present Aleubilla del Marqués. 400 S,D: (403) Calsada; ïbala trespasar. J:yua-la. M:qnea; ts passar. Following de in this verse, an erasure or blot. The Calcada ofQuinea may have been a road along the river, or we may have perhaps a popular tradition of the Roman Road which passed not far from this point. P: First, it appears, quinia. 401 S,D: (404) navas; va. In a footnote Damas Hinard suggests naves. Quite unnecessary, however. Cr. Gen. fol. CCCIII a: paso Duero sobre Naua de palos. The words seem to have pussled more than one editor. I prefer to consider them as a name pure and simple, a name owing its origin to the fact that a ferry had long existed at this point. And in f...