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| CSM Number : 56 | |||
| Short name: | The Monk who Recited Five Psalms Daily | Alternative: | Five Psalms with the Initials MARIA |
| Incipit: | Gran dereit’ é de seer/ seu miragre mui fremoso | ||
| Refrain: | Gran dereit’ é de seer/ seu miragre mui fremoso/ da Virgen, de que nacer/ quis por nos Deus grorioso. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | an ignorant monk |
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A monk could not read very well, but was devoted to the Virgin. He always recited five hymns: the Magnificat; Ad Dominum; In convertendo; Ad te; and Retribue servo tuo. He selected these five because the first letters of the songs represented the five letters in the name Maria. He repeated these hymns daily in front of an altar and repented of his sins. He did this his whole life, and when he died, a bush with five roses emerged from his mouth. It bloomed because he had praised the Virgin. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7' | Refrain: | 7 7' 7 7' |
| No. of Stanzas: | 6 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | ABAB | acacacab | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| T56, E56, To71 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Fuit in ecclesia B. Dei genetricis Mariae, quae est Dolo monast. (578) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| hymn, In convertendo (singing of hymn), Magnificat (singing of hymn), Retribue servo tuo (singing of hymn), roses, Ad Dominum (singing of hymn), Ad te (singing of hymn) | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Five Psalms with the Initials MARIA | Gautier de Coinci |
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| Five Psalms with the Initials MARIA | Vendôme Collection (Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3773 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Antología de prosa y verso. Versión moderna, introducción, notas y vocabulario de Alfredo Eduardo Fraschini Alfonso el Sabio | |||
| Antología Alfonso X | |||
| 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 | |||
| La fama del santuario de Salas en lo antiguo Arco, Ricardo del | |||
| España en su historia: cristianos, moros y judíos Castro, Américo | |||
| Imágenes de la Virgen en los códices medievales de España Delclaux, Federico | |||
| 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 | |||
| Musical Analysis and Poetic Structure in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Huseby, Gerardo Víctor | |||
| El rey Alfonso y las Cantigas de Santa María (Conferencia leída en el Centro Gallego el 7 de diciembre de 1929) Ibarbourou, Juana de | |||
| 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 | |||
| Cantigas de Alfonso X, el Sabio Moreno Galván, José M. | |||
| Art of Estrangement: Redefining Jews in Reconquest Spain Patton, Pamela A. | |||
| Antología de Alfonso el Sabio Peña, Margarita | |||
| Textos de literatura portuguesa. I: Afonso X, o Sábio Rodrigues Lapa, Manuel | |||
| Alfonso X, el Sabio. Antología Solalinde, Antonio G. | |||