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| CSM Number : 27 | |||
| Short name: | The Image that Appeared in a Synagogue | Alternative: | Libia (a mistake for Lydda) |
| Incipit: | Non devemos por maravilla tẽer | ||
| Refrain: | Non devemos por maravilla tẽer/ d’ a madre do vencedor sempre vencer. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | the Apostles |
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Some Jews owned a synagogue. The Apostles bought it, intending to convert it into a church. The Jews were very displeased and went to Caesar to protest, hoping to repossess the building. The emperor had the apostles summoned and asked them to account for the deed. They assured him that they had bought it fairly and had turned it into a church dedicated to the Virgin. The emperor ordered the building to be closed for forty days to establish who was the rightful owner. The Apostles went to Mt Zion, were the Virgin lived, and asked her to help them. She assured them that she would. After the time was up, the church was opened. St Peter cleaned the place in front of the altar and a painted image of the Virgin appeared to the Jews. The Jews acknowledged the divine providence of the image and relinquished the building. It was the first church ever dedicated to the Virgin. Later, the emperor Julian ordered the Jews to bring him the image, but it looked at them so threateningly that they did not dare to touch it. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 11 11 11 11 | Refrain: | 11 11 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 14 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | |
| MS locations: | |||
| T27, E27, To25 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Bissenos proceres Salvator misit in orbem Qui rudibus (146) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| apostles, emperor, image (of Virgin Mary), Jews, lovesickness, property (dispute over), Saint Peter, synagogue | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Libia | Pez |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Phillips (Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | John of Garland |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | BL Mariale 2 (London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Mariale Magnum (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale lat 3177) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
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| Libia (a mistake for Lydda) | BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3744 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| The Jew in the Cántigas of Alfonso X, el Sabio Bagby, Albert | |||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
| Varrer a capela Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel | |||
| Anti-Semitism in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Hatton, Vikki, and Angus MacKay | |||
| Estudio histórico-musical [de las Cantigas de Santa Maria] Llorens Cistero, José María | |||
| La gaita y la cornamusa en Galicia y Francia Novoa Gonzalez, María del Carmen | |||
| Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain Patton, Pamela A. | |||
| La dialéctica texto-imagen. A propósito de la representación del judío en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X Rodríguez Barral, Paulino | |||
| Alfonso X, el rey sabio ¿tolerante con la minoría judía? Una lectura emblemática de las Cantigas de Santa Maria Roitman, Gisela | |||
| Os judeus na Espanha do século XIII, segundo as Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X o Sábio Teensma, B. N. | |||