Las Complas muevas por ḥag haPésaḥ: poema y romancerillo no del todo identificado de Y. A. Yoná

Abstract

Apropos of the Sephardic copla of the Exodus cycle The Ten Plagues (I) -one of the nine within a tradition of exclusively written transmission-, called «Complas muevas por ḥag haPésaḥ» in the Salonician edition (n.d.) of the same name by Yacob Yoná, its textual similarity with three other coplas of the same cycle (by Yoná himself, by Y. Herera and by S. Haleví) is raised, the contents of the other texts included in the edition (which is identified with previous imprecise bibliographical references) are described, a critical edition of the semitraditional copla called The Mission of Moses is offered in two versions (the printed one in three editions by Yoná, and the one preserved also in three manuscripts), and new versions -complete or the variants only-of the ballads The Painful Lover and Moriana's Poison are published.