La declaración del Cántico espiritual sanjuanista: algunas notas sobre el idiógrafo de Sanlúcar de Barrameda

The tradition of the commentary on the Cántico espiritual consists of three families of manuscripts: CA, CA’ and CB. All the codices are apographs with the exception of the Ms. S (Sanlúcar de Barrameda) which transmits the text of the CA branch with autograph corrections and glosses. Elia detected in CB a suspicious contamination of copies that proves the apocryphal nature of this version: CB follows a CA’ witness in the initial part and then passes ex abrupto to Ms. S (or perhaps, if it existed, to a copy of that idiograph). This study shows that, within CB (in the explanation of the first lira), there was also a contamination of readings, and that from the beginning the writer of the ‘elongated version’ had to work with at least a couple of manuscripts. Furthermore, the revision technique used by the mystic is explored in depth, with the goal of an ecdotic representation of the last stage in the elaboration of the idiograph: the distinction between additions and glosses, alternative variants, complex cases of rewriting.