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CSM Number : 4
Short name: The Murdered Jewish Boy Alternative: Jewish Boy: Jew of Bourges
Incipit: A madre do que livrou/ dos leões Daniel
Refrain: A madre do que livrou/ dos leões Daniel/ essa do fogo guardou/ un menĩo d’ Irrael
Summary of narrative
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Setting: Bourges Protagonist(s): Abel, a Jewish boy

A Jewish boy named Abel, the son of a glassmaker, went to school with Christians. At Easter, he went to church with the other pupils and saw the abbot giving them communion.

It seemed to him as if the Virgin on the altar were giving them the sacrament. He lined up to receive communion and the Virgin gave it to him.

He returned home and told his father what he had done.

His father was enraged and threw him into a furnace. His mother, Rachel, screamed and ran into the street. People came to her aid.

The Virgin protected the boy in the midst of the flames, just as her Son had protected Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael [in the fiery furnace].

The Jewish boy was baptised at once, his mother converted to Christianity, and his father was thrown into the furnace.

Metrical data
Stanza: 7 7’ 7 7’ 7 7’ 7 7 Refrain: 7 7 7 7
No. of Stanzas: 11
Rhyme scheme: ABAB | cdcdcdcb Zejel: Yes
MS locations:
T4, E4, To4
Poncelet reference
Apud Bituricas cum christiani die Paschae communicarent (95)
Keywords
abbot, baptism, burning, children, Easter, Eucharist, furnace, glassmaker, murder, conversion, Jews, school, student, fire
Discography
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Miracle Collection
Jew of Bourges Pez
Jew of Bourges Thott
(Copenhagen, Royal Library, MS Thott 128)
Jew of Bourges Phillips
(Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak Vincent de Beauvais
Jew of Bourges Gil de Zamora
(Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak BL Mariale 3
(London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94)
Jewish Boy: Jew of Bourges Lisbon Mariale
(Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak John of Garland
Jew of Bourges Legenda Aurea (Voragine)
Jew of Bourges Gonzalo de Berceo
Jew of Bourges Madrid Mariale
(Madrid, B.N., MS 110)
Jew of Bourges Gautier de Coinci
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak William of Malmesbury
Jew of Bourges Adgar
(London, BL, Egerton 612)
Jew of Bourges BL Mariale 2
(London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73)
Jew of Bourges Nigel of Canterbury
(London, BL, MS Cotton Vespasian D.xix)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak Ripoll
(Rivipullensis 193)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak Gregory of Tours
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak Mariale Magnum
(Paris Bibliothèque Nationale lat 3177)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak Bartholomew of Trent
(University of Bologna, Codice 1794)
Jewish Boy: Covered with her Cloak Vendôme Collection
(Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185)
Jewish Boy: Jew of Bourges Johannes Herolt
Jewish Boy: Jew of Bourges Dominic of Evesham
(Oxford, Balliol College, MS 240, ff. 137-148)
Jewish Boy: Jew of Bourges Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin
(London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169)
Jew of Bourges BL Mariale 1
(Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v)
BITAGAP ID
3721
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