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CSM Number : 21 | |||
Short name: | The Barren Woman’s Son is Revived | Alternative: | Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] |
Incipit: | Santa Maria pod’ enfermos guarir | ||
Refrain: | Santa Maria pod’ enfermos guarir/ quando xe quiser, e mortos resorgir. | ||
Summary of narrative | |||
Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a woman and her newborn baby |
A barren woman prayed to the Virgin for a son. She gave birth to one, but he died of a fever. The mother was distraught. She took the child to a monastery and placed him in front of the altar. She called on the Virgin to revive him. The Virgin made him stir in the bed where he lay and brought him back to life. |
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Metrical data | |||
Stanza: | 11! 11! 11! 11 | Refrain: | 11 11 |
No. of Stanzas: | 11 | ||
Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | |
MS locations: | |||
T21, E21, To26 | |||
Poncelet reference | |||
In Galliae partibus est quoddam monasterium in honore (790) | |||
Keywords | |||
childbirth, children, fever, illness, infertility, madness, pregnancy, resurrection | |||
Discography | |||
Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
Miracle | Collection | ||
Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Pez |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Thott (Copenhagen, Royal Library, MS Thott 128) |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | John of Garland |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Mariale Magnum (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale lat 3177) |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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Son Restored to Life [son of a French knight] | Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
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BITAGAP ID | |||
3738 | |||
Bibliography | |||
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 | |||
Reflexiones sobre las “Cantigas de Santa María” y su relación con otros mariales romances Fidalgo Francisco, Elvira | |||
Entre Ave y Eva: las mujeres de las Cantigas de Santa María. I. Madres y mujeres casadas Fidalgo, Elvira | |||
El planto en la historia y en la literatura gallega Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel | |||
A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten | |||
Sull’antica metrica portoghese Mussafia, Adolfo | |||
Las voces de las mujeres en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X Scarborough, Connie, L. | |||
Recordings of Las [sic] Cantigas de Santa Maria Contained in the Facsimile Edition Published by Edilán (Madrid 1979) Tinnell, Roger D. |