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CSM Number : 34 |
Short name: |
The Desecrated Image of the Virgin |
Alternative: |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Incipit: |
Gran dereit’ é que fill’ o demo por escarmento |
Refrain: |
Gran dereit’ é que fill’ o demo por escarmento/ quen contra Santa Maria filla atrevemento. |
Summary of narrative |
Setting: |
Constantinople |
Protagonist(s): |
a Jew and a Christian |
A beautiful image of the Virgin, painted on wood, hung in a street in Constantinople. One night a Jewish man stole it, threw it down a latrine and defecated on it. The devil killed him and he went to perdition. Afterwards, a Christian retrieved the image. It gave off a very sweet fragrance, better than spices from “Ultramar”, balsam or unguent The Christian washed it, set it up in his house, and made offerings to it for his salvation. The image emitted a substance like oil to serve as a testimony of this event.
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Metrical data |
Stanza: |
13’ 13’ 13’ 13’ |
Refrain: |
13’ 13’ |
No. of Stanzas: |
7 |
Rhyme scheme: |
AA | bbaa |
Zejel: |
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MS locations: |
T34, E34, To36 |
Poncelet reference |
Ad idem ubi supra legitur: In Cpoli civitate Iudaeus imaginem (20) |
Keywords |
iconoclasts, image (of Virgin Mary), Jews, oil (exuded from image), spices, thief/ thieves, toilet |
Discography |
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Miracle |
Collection |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Phillips (Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Vincent de Beauvais
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The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
John of Garland
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The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Gautier de Coinci
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The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
William of Malmesbury
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The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Adgar (London, BL, Egerton 612) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Mariale Magnum (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale lat 3177) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Miraculorum B. Mariae. libri III (Reims 1400) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Jean Gobi
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The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
Mary Image Insulted |
Paris Mariale 1 (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 14463) |
The Virgin's Image Insulted [latrine] |
BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
BITAGAP ID |
3751 |
Bibliography |
Obras de Alfonso X (Selección) Alfonso X |
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 |
Les Cantigas de Santa Maria de don Alfonso el Sabio Aubry, Pierre |
The Jew in the Cántigas of Alfonso X, el Sabio Bagby, Albert |
Heretics and Infidels: the Cantigas de Santa María as Ideological Instrument of Cultural Codfication Bollo Panadero, María Dolores |
Iconos dentro de la miniaturas de las Cantigas de Santa Maria Corti, Francisco |
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 |
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria Filgueira Valverde, José |
Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel |
Paralelismo discursivo de los delitos de hurto y robo en las Siete Partidas y Las Cantigas de Santa Maria’ Igkesias, Yolanda, and David Navarro |
Itinéraire espagnol du conte médiéval (VIIIs-XVs) Marsan, Rameline E. |
Osservazioni sulle Cantigas di Alfonso X e sui Miracles di Gautier de Coincy Marullo, Teresa |
Constructing the Inimical Jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus' Magician in Text and Image Patton, Pamela A. |
Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain Patton, Pamela A. |
Cantigues d’Anfós el Savi Pedrell, Felipe |
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 |
Mother of God. A History of the Virgin Mary Rubin, MIri |
Alfonso X el Sabio y la pintura sobre tabla Sánchez Cantón, Francisco Javier |
Copistas, cancioneros, editores. Tres problemas para a lírica galega medieval Tavani, Giuseppe |
Os judeus na Espanha do século XIII, segundo as Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X o Sábio Teensma, B. N. |
Recordings of Las [sic] Cantigas de Santa Maria Contained in the Facsimile Edition Published by Edilán (Madrid 1979) Tinnell, Roger D. |