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Miracle data
Source name:	Gautier de Coinci
Short title:	Chaste Empress
Poncelet Key:	463 - Erat quidam imperator romanus uxore carens, qui castitatis
Reference numbers:	book2 no1
Rubric/Title in source:	De l’empeeris qui garda sa chasteé contre mout de temptations
Incipit:	As sages dist et fait savoir / Li sages livres de savoir
Notes:	Koenig: II Miracle 9 Ducrot-Granderye: 60 3980 lines The miracle of the Chaste Empress is followed by a 'Chasteé as nonains': Rubric: Des nonains de Nostre Dame de Soissons Incipit: Ici me prent, ici m’aard / Granz volentez, par saint Maard Book 2 begins with a prologue: Rubric: Ci commence li prologues en la seconde partie Incipit: A Saint Maart ou biau livraire / Truis un biau livre dont biau triare 410 lines Next follow 7 songs: Song 1: Pour la pucele en chantant me deport Song 2: Mere Dieu, vierge senee Song 3: Amors, dont sui espris Song 4: D’une amor coie et serie Song 5: Hui matin a l’ajornee / Toute m’ambleüre Song 6: Ja pour yver, pour noif ne pour gelee Song 7: Ma vïele / Vïeler vieut un biau son