The Cercapou is a literary work that deals with

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matters and that is attributed to

Francesc Eiximenis Francesc Eiximenis (; died 1409) was a Franciscan Catalan writer who lived in the 14th-century Crown of Aragon. He was possibly one of the more successful medieval Catalan writers since his works were widely read, copied, published and translated ...

. It was written in

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during the XIV or XV century.

Edition

This work was transcribed and published by the

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scholar Giuseppe Edoardo Sansone between 1957 and 1958.

Authorship

The

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Curt Wittlin Curt Wittlin (13 April 1941 – 23 September 2019) was a Swiss philologist and an expert of medieval Catalan language and literature. Biography Wittlin studied romance philology in Basel with Germà Colon, and later in Paris, Florence and Barcel ...

established that this book was not written directly by Eiximenis, but used him as a source. According to Wittlin, the anonymous author of the ''Cercapou'' copied more or less literally pieces of the final part of Eiximenis'

Llibre de les dones The Llibre de les Dones (Book of Women) is a book that was possibly written between 1387 and 1392 by Francesc Eiximenis in Catalan in Valencia and dedicated to Sanxa Ximenes d'Arenós, countess of Prades. Date Regarding its date of composi ...

in the final section of his book. The part that was not a copy of Eiximenis was a copy of the anonymous ''Espill de consciència'' (Mirror of conscience).Wittlin, Curt “De Lo Libre de les Dones a la Scala Dei”. ''Actes del tercer col·loqui d’estudis catalans a Nord-Amèrica''. PAM. 1983. P. 149 n.12.

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