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CSM Number : 11 |
Short name: |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Incipit: |
Macar ome per folia/ agĩa caer/ pod’ en pecado |
Refrain: |
Macar ome per folia/ agĩa caer/ pod’ en pecado/ do ben de Santa Maria/ non dev’ a seer/ desasperado. |
Summary of narrative |
Setting: |
unspecified |
Protagonist(s): |
a monk |
Every night a sinful monk left his monastery to take his pleasure with his mistress. Before he left he would say the Ave Maria. One night he fell into a river and drowned. Devils and angels argued over his soul. The devils’ case was stronger and the angels were about to give in when the Virgin made them recover the monk’s soul. They returned the soul to his body and revived him. The other monks found him alive in the cold water.
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Metrical data |
Stanza: |
7' 7' 7' 5 4' 7' 5 4' |
Refrain: |
7' 5 4' 7' 5 4' |
No. of Stanzas: |
10 |
Rhyme scheme: |
ABCABC | aaabcabc |
Zejel: |
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MS locations: |
T11, E11, To11 |
Poncelet reference |
Coenobii custos fervore libidinis ardens Saepius ad (201) |
Keywords |
angels, Ave Maria (saying of), devils, drowning, fornication, litany (recitation of), monastery, monks, resurrection, soul |
Discography |
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Miracle |
Collection |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Pez
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The Drowned Sacristan |
Thott (Copenhagen, Royal Library, MS Thott 128) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Phillips (Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
John of Garland
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The Drowned Sacristan |
Legenda Aurea (Voragine)
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The Drowned Sacristan |
Gonzalo de Berceo
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The Drowned Sacristan |
Madrid Mariale (Madrid, B.N., MS 110) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Gautier de Coinci
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The Drowned Sacristan |
William of Malmesbury
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Ave on the Tongue |
Adgar (London, BL, Egerton 612) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
BL Mariale 2 (London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Nigel of Canterbury (London, BL, MS Cotton Vespasian D.xix) |
Monachus impudicus aquis submergitur: et ad vitam reducitur |
Ripoll (Rivipullensis 193) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Jean Gobi
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The Drowned Sacristan |
BL Mariale 4 (London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 1, ff. 64v-69v) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Paris Mariale 2 (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 12593) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Vendôme Collection (Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Pseudo-Caesarius
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The Drowned Sacristan |
Cornell Mariale (Cornell, MS B.14) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
Ave on the Tongue |
BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
The Drowned Sacristan |
Walter of Cluny
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BITAGAP ID |
3728 |
Bibliography |
Cantigas en versión para arpa de María Rosa Calvo- Manzano Calvo- Manzano, María Rosa |
A Paleographic Edition of the Alfonsine Collection of Prose Miracles of the Virgin Chatham, James R. |
Another Aspect of the Virgin Mary in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Davis, Jr, William Richard |
Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe |
La cultura monástica en las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X: pervivencia, adopción y reelaboración Disalvo, Santiago |
Gualterus de Cluny, las 'Cantigas', y el niño que ofrece pan a Cristo: reconsideración de una antigua colección de milagros marianos DiSalvo, Santiago |
Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel |
Variantes de tres leyendas por Gil de Zamora Fita, Fidel |
Las traducciones castellanas de las Cantigas de Santa María Keller, John E. and Robert W. Linker |
Alfonso X, el Sabio Keller, John Esten |
A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten |
A Preliminary Bibliography of Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry in English Translation Longland, Jean R. |
O Livro dos Milagres da Bem-aventurada Virgem Maria Martins, Mário |
Osservazioni sulle Cantigas di Alfonso X e sui Miracles di Gautier de Coincy Marullo, Teresa |
Milagres Medievais numa colectânea mariana alcobacense. Edição crítica, tradução e estudo Nascimento, Aries Augusto, ed. |
Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen |
Os afazeres do demónio nas Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X Rodrigues, Maria Idalina Resina |
A tradición musical das Cantigas de Santa María Rossell i Mayo, Antoni |
Relaciones entre los Milagros de Nuestra Señora y las Cantigas de Santa María Scarborough, Connie L. |
A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain Tinnell, Roger D. |
La XI cantiga de Alfonso el Sabio, y su armonización por Julián Ribera Wilkes, Josué |