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CSM Number : 406 |
Short name: |
Cantiga de loor |
Alternative: |
Ben vennas, maio |
Incipit: |
Ben vennas, maio |
Refrain: |
Ben vennas, maio |
Summary of narrative |
Setting: |
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Protagonist(s): |
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Metrical data |
Stanza: |
10’ 10’ 10’ 10’ |
Refrain: |
4’ |
No. of Stanzas: |
14 |
Rhyme scheme: |
aaaa | B |
Zejel: |
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MS locations: |
ToAppendix 01 |
Poncelet reference |
None |
Keywords |
wine, flock, altar, bread, bull, cow |
Discography |
Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem |
BITAGAP ID |
3851 |
Bibliography |
Antología Alfonso X |
Obras de Alfonso X (Selección) Alfonso X |
Escolma de poesía galega. I: Escola medieval galego-portuguesa Álvarez Blázquez, José María |
Escolma da poesía medieval: 1198-1354 Álvarez Blázquez, José María |
Alfonso the Wise Anon |
Poética y realidad en el cancionero peninsular de la Edad Media Asensio, Eugenio |
Alfonso X el Sabio Ballesteros y Beretta, Antonio |
Dos cossantes às cantigas de amor Entwistle, William J. |
La ’seguida’ en la lírica galaico-portuguesa medieval Filgueira Valverde, José |
Medieval Poetic Tradition in Two Cantigas profanas of Alfonso el Sabio Foster, David William |
The Concept of Mary in Thirteenth-Century Spanish Poetry Foster, David William |
Resumen de ’¿Cuáles son los orígenes musicales de las Cantigas?’ García Moreno, María Teresa |
Anthologie der geistigen kultur auf der Pyraenhalbinsel (mittelalter) Giese, Wilhelm |
Alfonso X, el Sabio Keller, John Esten |
Poesia galaico-portuguesa: Antologia del segle XII al XIX Llompart, Josep M., ed. |
A Preliminary Bibliography of Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry in English Translation Longland, Jean R. |
Afonso X, o Sábio. Cantigas de Santa Maria. Excerptos annotados Magne, Augusto |
A estructura métrica de algunas das Cantigas de Santa Maria Montero Santalha, José-Martinho |
A poesia dos trovadores. Antologia Nemésio, Vitorino |
Final Nasals in the Galician-Portuguese Cancioneros Parkinson, Stephen |
Questões de estructura estrófica nas Cantigas de Santa Maria: estructuras múltiplas, assimetrias e continuações inconsistentes Parkinson, Stephen |
False Refrains in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen |
Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen |
Antología de Alfonso el Sabio Peña, Margarita |
Literatura galega medieval. I. A história. II. Antoloxia de textos comentados (lírica e prosa) Pena, Xosé Ramón |
Manual e Antoloxía da Literatura Galega Medieval Pena, Xosé Ramón |
Textos de literatura portuguesa. I: Afonso X, o Sábio Rodrigues Lapa, Manuel |
'Ben vennas mayo': a failed cantiga de Santa Maria Schaffer, Martha E. |
Die religiöse Lyrik des Mittelalters: Das Nachleben der Psalmen Singer, Samuel |
Alfonso X, el Sabio. Antología Solalinde, Antonio G. |
Copistas, cancioneros, editores. Tres problemas para a lírica galega medieval Tavani, Giuseppe |
Poetas gallegos. Las mejores poesías Varela Jácome, Benito |
Geschichte der portugiesischen Litterature Vasconcelos, Carolina Michaëlis de and Teófilo Braga |
Alfonso the Wise, King of Castille Ward, Mary |