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| CSM Number : 73 | |||
| Short name: | The Stained Chasuble | Alternative: | The Stained Corporale |
| Incipit: | Ben pod’ as cousas feas fremosas tornar | ||
| Refrain: | Ben pod’ as cousas feas fremosas tornar/ a que pod’ os pecados das almas lavar. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | Clusa [the Benedictine abbey of Sagra di San Michele, near Chiusa di San Michele, near Turin, Italy]. | Protagonist(s): | the treasurer of a monastery in Clusa |
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The treasurer of a large monastery at Clusa loved and served the Virgin. One Christmas, he went to place a white chasuble on the altar. He had the chasuble in one hand, and some sacramental wine in the other. He stumbled, spilling the deep, red wine on the chasuble. He was dismayed and terrified of what the abbot and the other monks would think. As he was weeping, the Virgin removed the stain from the chasuble. Everyone who heard of the miracle praised the Virgin, and pilgrims came to venerate the chasuble. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 12 12 12 12 | Refrain: | 12 12 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 11 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AA | bbba | Zejel: | Yes |
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| T73, E73, To89 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Cum (al. Dum) missa celebraretur dumque sanctus (287) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| Benedictines, chasuble, corporal, mass, Nativity of Jesus Christ (feast of), pilgrimage, spill, stain, treasurer, wine | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Stained Corporal | Pez |
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| Stained Corporal | Phillips (Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142) |
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| Stained Corporal | Gil de Zamora (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 9503) |
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| The Stained Corporale | BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
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| Stained Corporal | Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
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| Stained Corporal | William of Malmesbury |
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| Stained Corporal | Adgar (London, BL, Egerton 612) |
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| Stained Corporal | BL Mariale 2 (London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73) |
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| The Stained Corporale | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| Stained Corporal | Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
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| The Stained Corporale | Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
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| The Stained Corporale | BL Mariale 1 (Cotton Cleopatra C.x., ff. 101-144v) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3790 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| Gautier de Coinci est-il un compositeur? Billiet, Frédéric | |||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
| El trovador y la rosa: huellas de las ’chansons’ marianas. Gautier de Coincy en las Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X Disalvo, Santiago and Germán Rossi | |||
| As festas do tempo nos cancioneiros galego-portugueses, lección inaugural do Curso Académico do ano 1978 Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
| Cincuenta leyendas por Gil de Zamora, combinadas con las Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio Fita, Fidel | |||
| The Common Melodic Background of ’Ondas do mar de Vigo’ and Cantiga 73 Huseby, Gerardo Víctor | |||
| Estudio histórico-musical [de las Cantigas de Santa Maria] Llorens Cistero, José María | |||
| Doing lines: refrains and copyists in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| De música y métrica gallegas Ribera y Tarragó, Julián | |||