Arnaut Oihenarten "Kobla berriak". Lan inprimatuen edizioak eta aleak banaka ezagutu eta aztertu beharraz, XVII. mendeko euskarazko poema aurkitu berrien karietara

Abstract

This article publishes 83 hitherto unknown verses (three poems), written in Basque by Arnaut Oihenart (1592-1667), known to us thanks to a printed copy that we recently discovered in the Municipal Library of Grenoble under the name of Kobla berriak. To contextualize the short book Kobla berriak, we analyse the different editions and copies of the works published by Oihenart in Basque, French and Latin, as well as the different elements that make up each of them. Regarding the works printed in Basque, the six copies cited by Vinson in his bibliography have been analysed, as well as four other copies not cited up to now in the studies on Oihenart. We conclude that Oihenart gradually shaped his works with corrections, changes and additions, even after having published them, and, based on this statement, we propose a new arrangement and presentation of Oihenart’s works printed in Basque. Finally, we contend that the main objective of Oihenart’s collections of poems is to show in practice the variety of possibilities offered by the theoretical model he put forward for the metric and prosody of poetry in the Basque language.