Editing Amadís de Gaula (section)

====Manuscript fragments====
The only known manuscript are the 15th-century fragments found in a book binding (a discarded manuscript, in this case ''Amadís'', was used as raw material for binding another book), and identified and published by {{ill|Antonio Rodríguez-Moñino|es}}. He claimed sole ownership of only Book IV. The existence of a prior version of Books I to III has been supported by Antonio Rodríguez Moñino's identification of four 15th-century manuscript fragments ({{circa|1420}}). The name "Esplandián" is clearly visible in one of these. The fragments belong to the collection of the [[Bancroft Library]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. They show that, contrary to the usual view that Montalvo ''expanded'' the first three books, instead he abbreviated them.<ref name=Moñino>{{cite journal
|first=Antonio
|last=Rodríguez-Moñino
|title=El primer manuscrito del ''Amadís de Gaula''. (Noticia bibliográfica)
|journal=Boletín de la Real Academia Española
|volume=36
|year=1956
|pages=199–216
|others=(Included in his ''Relieves de erudición (del "Amadís" a Goya)''. Madrid: Castalia, 1959, pp. 17–38}}</ref>