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| CSM Number : 79 | |||
| Short name: | Musa, the Girl Taken to Paradise | Alternative: | Musa |
| Incipit: | Ai Santa Maria, | quen se per vos guia | ||
| Refrain: | Ai Santa Maria | quen se per vos guia/ quit’ é de folia | e sempre faz ben. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a girl named Musa |
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A pretty girl named Musa was carefree and merry. The Virgin appeared to her in a dream with a host of beautiful maidens. Musa wanted to go with them, but the Virgin chided her. She told her that if she quit behaving so frivolously she could join them in thirty days. Musa began behaving sedately. When her parents questioned her, she told them about the vision. Musa was stricken with a fever. At the appointed time, she died and the Virgin came to fetch her. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 11’ [5’ 5’] 11’ [5’ 5’] 11’ [5’(6) 5’] 5 | Refrain: | 11 [5’ 5’] 11 [5’ 5] |
| No. of Stanzas: | 10 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | AB | cccb | Zejel: | |
| MS locations: | |||
| T79, E79, To42 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Beata virgo Maria cuidam puellae apparuit cum chorea (137) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| apparition, children, death (foretold), dream, fever, frivolity, illness, Saints (other), vision | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Musa | Phillips (Chicago, University of Chicago, Phillipps MS 25142) |
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| Musa | BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
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| Musa | Lisbon Mariale (Lisbon, B.N., MS Alcobacense 149) |
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| Musa | William of Malmesbury |
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| Musa | Adgar (London, BL, Egerton 612) |
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| Musa | BL Mariale 2 (London, BL, Arundel 346, ff. 60-73) |
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| Musa | Mariale Magnum (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale lat 3177) |
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| Musa | Bartholomew of Trent (University of Bologna, Codice 1794) |
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| Musa | Jean Mielot, Miracles de Nostre Dame (Oxford, Bodleian, Douce MS 374) |
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| Musa | Vendôme Collection (Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185) |
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| Musa | Pseudo-Caesarius |
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| Musa | Cornell Mariale (Cornell, MS B.14) |
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| Musa | Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3796 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse Bell, Aubrey F. G. | |||
| Contributo allo studio della letteratura miracolistica Bertolucci Pizzorusso, Valeria | |||
| Mecanismos de envolvimento da instância autoral nas Cantigas de Santa Maria Bittencourt, Vanda de Oliveira | |||
| Alonso X and the Birth of Spanish Literature Blake, Mary E. | |||
| Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
| A Preliminary Bibliography of Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry in English Translation Longland, Jean R. | |||
| Alfonso X the Learned. Cantigas de Santa Maria. An Anthology Parkinson, Stephen | |||
| Antologia da poesia portuguesa, vol. I: séculos XII-XVI Pinheiro Torres, Alexandre | |||
| Cantiga de Santa Maria Thornton, Seth G. | |||
| A Selected and Annotated Discography of Recordings of Music from the Middle Ages in Spain Tinnell, Roger D. | |||