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| CSM Number : 209 | |||
| Short name: | King Alfonso is Healed by the Virgin’s Book | Alternative: | Alfonso X is cured by CSM |
| Incipit: | Muito faz grand’ erro e en torto jaz | ||
| Refrain: | Muito faz grand’ erro e en torto jaz/ a Deus quen lle nega o ben que lle faz. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | Vitoria | Protagonist(s): | King Alfonso X (the cantiga is written in the first person) |
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King Alfonso lay ill in Vitoria. No one expected him to recover. His pain was so severe that he thought that he was dying, and he cried out to the Virgin to relieve him. His doctors ordered hot compresses, but the king rejected these. Instead, he ordered Mary’s book to be brought and placed on him. As soon as this was done, the pain diminished and the king thanked the Virgin. Many people were there, weeping as they watched the king suffer. When they saw that he had recovered, they prostrated themselves and praised the Virgin. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 11 [5’ 5] 11 [5’ 5] 11 [5’ 5] 11 [5’ 5] | Refrain: | 11 [5’ 5] 11 [5’ 5] |
| No. of Stanzas: | 8 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | |
| MS locations: | |||
| F95, E209 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| None | |||
| Keywords | |||
| book (of CSM), compress, doctor (medical), king, tears | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3962 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria do rei don Alfonso Alfonso X , o Sábio | |||
| 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 | |||
| Actualidade do Rei Alfonso X o Sábio Anon | |||
| Mecanismos de envolvimento da instância autoral nas Cantigas de Santa Maria Bittencourt, Vanda de Oliveira | |||
| Narrativa visual de la enfermedad en las Cantigas de Santa María Corti, Francisco | |||
| Iconography and Literature - Alfonso himself in Cantiga 209 Keller, John Esten and Richard P. Kinkade | |||
| Alfonso’s Miraculous Book: Patronage, Politics, and Performance in the ’Cantigas de Santa Maria’ Kennedy, Kirstin | |||
| Las Cantigas de Santa María: los proyectos musicales de Alfonso X y su valor como fuente histórica López Elum, Pedro | |||
| Discourses of Judaizing and Judaism in Medieval Spain Nirenberg, David | |||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| ’Iudeus sacer’: Life, Law, and Identity in the ’State of Exception’ Called ’Marian Miracle’ Prado-Vilar, Francisco | |||
| Alfonso X of Castile: Patron of Literature and Learning Procter, Evelyn S. | |||
| Alfons X av León och Kastilien Sandels, Marianne | |||
| El códice florentino de las ’Cantigas’ y su relación con los demás manuscritos Solalinde, Antonio G. | |||
| Las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Steiger, Arnald | |||