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| CSM Number : 24 | ||||
| Short name: | The Clerk of Chartres | |||
| Incipit: | Madre de Deus, non pod’ errar/ quen en ti á fiança | |||
| Refrain: | Madre de Deus, non pod’ errar/quen en ti á fiança. | |||
| Summary of narrative | ||||
| Setting: | Chartres | Protagonist(s): | a priest | |
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A novice priest of Chartres was a gambler and a thief. Whenever he saw an image of the Virgin he always prayed to it. He died unconfessed. He was not buried within the churchyard. The Virgin appeared to a priest and chided him, telling him to bury the novice in hallowed ground. The priests discovered that the novice had a flower like a lily growing out of his mouth. |
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| Metrical data | ||||
| Stanza: | 8 8 8 6’ | Refrain: | 8 6’ | |
| No. of Stanzas: | 12 | |||
| Rhyme scheme: | AB | cccb | Zejel: | ||
| MS locations: | ||||
| T24, E24, To17 | ||||
| Poncelet reference | ||||
| Deditus illecebris vitae factisque superbis In Carnotensi (339) | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| apparition, burial, confession (see also repentance), dancing, flower, gambling, ground (unconsecrated), image (of Virgin Mary), Kyrie eleison (singing of), lily, mouth, priest , procession, sermon, thief/ thieves | ||||
| Discography | ||||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | ||||
| Miracle | Collection | |||
| Clerk of Chartres | Pez |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | John of Garland |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Gonzalo de Berceo |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Madrid Mariale (Madrid, B.N., MS 110) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Gautier de Coinci |
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| Clerk of Chartres | William of Malmesbury |
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| Clerk of Chartres | BL Mariale 2 (London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73) |
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| O intemerata: Buried Outside the Church Yard | Jean Gobi |
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| Dou chancelier de Chartres qui saluet volentiers Nostre Dame | Jean le Marchant (Chartres MS 1027) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | BL Mariale 4 (London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 1, ff. 64v-69v) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | BL Mariale 5 (London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 2, ff. 70-92) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Paris Mariale 2 (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 12593) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Johannes Herolt |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Cornell Mariale (Cornell, MS B.14) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Pseudo-Caesarius |
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| Clerk of Chartres | Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
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| Clerk of Chartres | BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
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| BITAGAP ID | ||||
| 3741 | ||||
| Bibliography | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| La cultura monástica en las Cantigas de Santa María de Alfonso X: pervivencia, adopción y reelaboración Disalvo, Santiago | ||||
| Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel | ||||
| La sociedad medieval española reflejada en la obra de Alfonso el Sabio González, Jr., Juan | ||||
| Some Spanish Summaries of the Cantigas de Santa Maria Keller, John E. and Robert W. Linker | ||||
| A Feasible Source of the Denouements of the Exemplos in El Conde Lucanor Keller, John Esten | ||||
| Confession in the Cantigas de Santa Maria MacKay, Angus, & Geraldine McKendrick | ||||
| Singers of the Virgin in Thirteenth-Century Spain Marchand, James, & Spurgeon Baldwin | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Textos de literatura portuguesa. I: Afonso X, o Sábio Rodrigues Lapa, Manuel | ||||
| A Chapter in Alfonso X’s Personal Narrative: The Puerto de Santa María Poems in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Snow, Joseph T. | ||||