"Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, Volume VI" by Armistead, Silverman, and Katz.

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, Volume VI.Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition V. Carolingian Ballads (4): Montesinos.  Collected by Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman, and Israel J. Katz. Edition and Study by Samuel G. Armistead with Musical Transcriptions and Studies by Israel J. Katz. Editor, Karen L. Olson. As part of the ongoing multi-volume series, Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, Vol. VI is devoted to an in-depth study of two Judeo-Spanish ballads from Eastern Mediterranean and North African Sephardic communities. These narrative ballads, The Birth of Montesinos and Rosaflorida and Montesinos, were based on a now-lost medieval epic poem derived from the Old French chanson de geste, Aïol et Mirabel. The Montesinos ballads were first printed in 16th-century Spanish ballad broadsides and later reprinted in various early ballad collections published during Spain’s Golden Age. They continued to be sung, especially in the Judeo-Spanish oral tradition, down to