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| CSM Number : 16 | |||
| Short name: | The Knight who Said Two Hundred ‘Aves’ a Day | Alternative: | A Hundred Aves a Day |
| Incipit: | Quen dona fremosa e bõa quiser amar | ||
| Refrain: | Quen dona fremosa e bõa quiser amar/ am’ a Groriosa e non poderá errar. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a knight |
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A knight fell in love with a lady, but she rejected him. He went to an abbot to confess and to ask for God’s help in winning the object of his affections. The abbot told him to pray to the Virgin and to say 200 Ave Marias every day for a year The knight followed the abbot’s instructions. On the rare days that he failed to say his prayers, he made amends and said them later. One day while he was praying, the Virgin appeared to him. She asked him to choose between her and his love. He renounced his lady and said 100 Ave Marias for the Virgin. When a year had passed, he died. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 13 13 13 13 | Refrain: | 13 13 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 16 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | |
| MS locations: | |||
| T16, E16, To12 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Fuit quidam miles iuvenis et iocosus, fortis et bellicosus, qui (631) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| abbot, apparition, Ave Maria (saying of), knight, lovesickness, confession (see also repentance) | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| A Hundred Aves a Day | Gautier de Coinci |
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| A Hundred Aves a Day | BL Mariale 5 (London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 2, ff. 70-92) |
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| A Hundred Aves a Day | Miraculorum B. Mariae. libri III (Reims 1400) |
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| A Hundred Aves a Day | Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
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| A Hundred Aves a Day | Vendôme Collection (Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3733 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria — El Cantar de los cantares — Sonetos — Coplas que hizo por la muerte de su padre D. Rodrigo Alfonso X el Sabio and others | |||
| Cantigas de D. Alfonso X Anon [Morayta de Sagrario, Miguel] | |||
| Courtly Love as Ritual in Early Medieval Spanish Poetry Burt, John R. | |||
| A Paleographic Edition of the Alfonsine Collection of Prose Miracles of the Virgin Chatham, James R. | |||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
| De amor y poesía en la España medieval: Prólogo a Juan Ruiz Ferraresi, Alicia C. de | |||
| “Hermeneutics of the Cantigas: recovering notational sense”, Ferreira, Manuel Pedro | |||
| A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria e cancioneiros galaico-portugueses Martins, Mário | |||
| Osservazioni sulle Cantigas di Alfonso X e sui Miracles di Gautier de Coincy Marullo, Teresa | |||
| Las Cantigas de Don Alonso el Sabio. Morayta de Sagrario, Miguel | |||
| The Virgin’s Cures for Lust Powell Jayne, Cnynthia | |||
| El vasallaje amoroso ’a lo divino’ en las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X Raimond-Molinier, Jeanne | |||
| Textos de literatura portuguesa. I: Afonso X, o Sábio Rodrigues Lapa, Manuel | |||
| When your Lover is the Virgin Mary: A New Approach to the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X of Castile Scarborough, Connie L. | |||
| A Nexus between cantigas de amor and Cantiga de Santa Maria: The cantiga 'de change' Schaffer, Martha | |||