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CSM Number : 2
Short name: Hildefonsus of Toledo
Incipit: Muito devemos varões / loar a Santa Maria
Refrain: Muito devemos varões/loar a Santa Maria/que sas graças e sas dões/dá a quen en ela fia
Summary of narrative
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Setting: Toledo Protagonist(s): St. Ildefonso

The Virgin gave a vestment to a Spanish priest named Ildefonso.

Ildefonso preached well and wrote that Mary was a Virgin, although Jews and heretics challenged this notion.

One day, while he was walking in a procession with King Reccesvinth, St Leocadia appeared before them. She told Ildefonso: “my Lady lives through you.”

The Virgin gave him an alb to wear on her feast days.

She warned him that no one else was to sit in his chair or to wear the garment.

His successor, Archbishop Siagrio, put on the alb and was killed immediately.

Metrical data
Stanza: 7' 7' 7' 7' 7' 7' 7' 7' 7' Refrain: 7' 7' 7' 7'
No. of Stanzas: 6
Rhyme scheme: ABAB | cdcdefefefb Zejel: Yes
MS locations:
T2, E2, To2
Poncelet reference
Archipraesul Toletanus / Hildefonsus fide sanus (117)
Keywords
alb, apparition, archbishop, heretic, Jews, procession, Saint Ildefonsus, Saint Leocadia, sermon, treachery, vengeance (divine), vestments, virginity
Discography
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Miracle Collection
Hildefonsus Gonzalo de Berceo
Hildefonsus Pez
Hildefonsus Thott
(Copenhagen, Royal Library, MS Thott 128)
Hildefonsus Phillips
(Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142)
Hildefonsus Vincent de Beauvais
Hildefonsus Gil de Zamora
Hildefonsus Gil de Zamora
Hildefonsus BL Mariale
(London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-57)
Hildefonsus Lisbon Mariale
(Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149)
Hildefonsus John of Garland
Hildefonsus Madrid Mariale
(Madrid, B.N., MS 110)
Hildefonsus Gautier de Coinci
Hildefonsus William of Malmesbury
Hildefonsus BL Mariale
(London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73)
Hildefonsus Nigel of Canterbury
(London, BL, MS Cotton Vespasian D.xix)
Hildefonsus Miraculorum B. Mariae. libri III
(Reims 1400)
Toledo Jean Gobi
Hildefonsus Jean Gobi
Hildefonsus BL Mariale
(London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 1, ff. 64v-69v)
Hildefonsus Bartholomew of Trent
(University of Bologna Codice 1794)
Hildefonsus Bartholomew of Trent
(University of Bologna Codice 1794)
Hildefonsus Pseudo-Caesarius
Hildefonsus Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin
(London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV)
Hildefonsus of Toledo BL Mariale
(Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v)
Bibliography
Antología
Alfonso X [KM]
La notación mensural de la música monódica de la corte española del siglo XIII ofrece soluciones nuevas, hasta hoy totalmente desconocidas, para la interpretación estético-rítmica de las melodías de los trovadores
Anglés, Higinio [AC]
Música Española
Anon [AC]
The Jew in the Cántigas of Alfonso X, el Sabio
Bagby, Albert [AC]
Un recull de miracles de Santa Maria, procedent de Ripoll, i les Cantigues d'Alfons el Savi
Baraut i Obiols, Cebrià [AC]
Cantigas en versión para arpa de María Rosa Calvo- Manzano
Calvo- Manzano, María Rosa [KM]
Il libro etiopico d ei miracoli di Maria e le sue fonti nelle letterature del Medio Evo latino
Cerulli, E [AC]
A Paleographic Edition of the Alfonsine Collection of Prose Miracles of the Virgin
Chatham, James R. [AC]
Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC]
Dexter, Elise Forsythe
Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio
Fita, Fidel [AC]
Representaciones marianas a través de la iconografía sobre San Ildefonso de Toledo
Fogelman, Patricia A.
Los poetas del Guadiana a Alfonso el Sabio
Gonzalez Lara, José, director de publicación [KM]
El arte mayor de Juan de Mena
Hanssen, Friedrich [AC]
Las traducciones castellanas de las Cantigas de Santa María
Keller, John E. and Robert W. Linker [AC]
A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor
Keller, John Esten [AC]
Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X el Sabio, rey de Castilla
López Serrano, Matilde [AC]
La iconografía de Santa Leocadia de Toledo
López Torrijos, Rosa
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria del Rey Alfonso el Sabio
Martínez Molina, Laura [AC]
O Livro dos Milagres da Bem-aventurada Virgem Maria
Martins, Mário [AC]
El altar de San Ildefonso (Granada, s. XVII): aparición de Santa Leocadia y disputa con los herejes, permanencia de una tradición iconográfica que se remonta al siglo XIII (Lámina II, del cód. T11, Cantigas de Santa María, núm. 2
Montoya Martínez, Jesús
Milagres Medievais numa colectânea mariana alcobacense. Edição crítica, tradução e estudo
Nascimento, Aries Augusto, ed.
Crestomatia arcaica: excertos da literatura portuguesa, desde o que mais antigo se conhece até ao século XVI
Nunes, José Joaquim [AC]
Textos de literatura portuguesa. I: Afonso X, o Sábio
Rodrigues Lapa, Manuel [AC]
Biblioteca española
Rodríguez de Castro, D. Joseph [AC]
Historia de la música española desde la venida de los Fenicios hasta el año 1850
Soriano Fuertes, Mariano [AC]
Os judeus na Espanha do século XIII, segundo as Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X o Sábio
Teensma, B.N. [AC]
A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain
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