A Typology of Catalan Play Manuscripts from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century Francesc Massip & Lenke Kovács* n the study of textual transmission of medieval drama, an important focus of interest is the conservation of texts or stage books used in or related to performances. In the late 1980s, the different types of play manuscripts were classified by Graham A. Runnalls, 1 Elisabeth Lalou and Darwin Smith 2 and, more recently, Robert L. A. Clark and Pamela Sheingorn 3 analyzed the performative dimension of illustrated play manuscripts. It is our aim to classify the extant Catalan plays from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century taking as a point of departure the typologies established for French drama from the same period. Belonging to the Carolingian empire, the territory referred to as Marca Hispanica the future Catalonia was drawn into European the- atrical events at a very early stage, first of all with the composition and * This essay was written within the framework of the Research Group 2009 SGR 258 Massip, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona. 1 Graham A. Runnalls, French Studies 42 (1988), p. 398-407; idem, u- The Editor and the Text: in Honour of A.J. Holden, Edinburgh, 1990, p. 96-113 (rpt. in Graham A. Runnalls, Etudes sur les mystères. Un recueil de 22 etudes sur les mystères français, une biblio- graphie, Paris, 1998, p. 367-89). 2 Elisabeth Lalou & Darwin Smith, Pour une typologie des manuscrits de théâtre , Fifteenth-Century Studies 13 (1988), p. 569-79. 3 Robert L.A. Clark & Pamela Sheingorn, Performative Reading: The Illustrated Man- uscript Mystère de la Passion , European Medieval Drama 6 (2002), p. 129-54. I