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Miracle data
Source name: Rocamadour
Short title: Two young men unharmed in the water (Rocamadour)
Reference numbers: book1 no.1
Rubric/Title in source: De duobus adolescentibus inter aquas nil lesis
Incipit: Temporibus nostris, multi Gasconum Beatam Mariam ecclesie Rupis Amatoris, orationis causa, adierunt
Notes: Incipits are based on Edmond Albe, Les Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour au XII Siècle. Texte et Traduction (Paris, Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1907). Short titles are from Marcus Bull, The Miracles of Our Lady of Rocamadour: Analysis and Translation (Woodbridge, Boydell, 1999). Both Albe’s edition and Bull’s translation are based on Paris, BN, MS lat. 16565 (dating to the end of the 12th c.) MS begins: Rubric: Incipit prologus in miraculis sancte Marie de Rupe Amatoris Incipit: Scripturus miracula Beate Dei Genitricis et perpetue Virginis Marie Rupis Amatoris, Paraclyti Spiritus Sancti deploro auxilium Explicit prologus This is followed by a list of rubrics and the heading: Incipit pars prima miraculorum sancte Marie Rupis Amatoris