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| CSM Number : 93 | |||
| Short name: | The Leper who was Healed by the Virgin’s Milk | Alternative: | Lacte suo sanat BV: alios |
| Incipit: | Nulla enfermidade | ||
| Refrain: | Nulla enfermidade/ non é de sãar/ grav’, u a piedade/ da Virgen chegar. | ||
| Summary of narrative | |||
| Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | the son of a burgher |
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A burgher had a handsome son who indulged in all manner of vices. God inflicted him with leprosy and he went to live in a hermitage. For three years he lived a pious life, saying a thousand Ave Marias so that the Virgin would take pity on him. The Virgin appeared to him, bared her breast, and anointed his body with her milk. The leprosy disappeared and his skin grew back. The man set out across the land telling how the Virgin had cured him. |
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| Metrical data | |||
| Stanza: | 12 12 12 12 | Refrain: | 6' 5 6' 5 |
| No. of Stanzas: | 8 | ||
| Rhyme scheme: | ABAB | cccb | Zejel: | Yes |
| MS locations: | |||
| T93, E93 | |||
| Poncelet reference | |||
| Clericus quidam B.Virginis devotus; cui cum per ecclesiam (184) | |||
| Keywords | |||
| anoint, Ave Maria (saying of), breast, illness, leprosy, milk (of Virgin Mary) | |||
| Discography | |||
| Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
| Miracle | Collection | ||
| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | Vincent de Beauvais |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | BL Mariale 3 (London, BL, Additional MS 35112, ff. 21-80; 90-94) |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | Miraculorum B. Mariae. libri III (Reims 1400) |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | BL Mariale 5 (London, BL, Additional MS 15723, Collection 2, ff. 70-92) |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | Jean Gobi |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | Vendôme Collection (Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185) |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | Johannes Herolt |
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| Milk: Tongue and Lips Restored | Paris Mariale 1 (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 14463) |
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| BITAGAP ID | |||
| 3810 | |||
| Bibliography | |||
| La música de las Cantigas de Santa María del rey Alfonso el Sabio. Facsímil, transcripción y estudio crítico vol. III Anglés, Higinio | |||
| The Early Seguidilla Clarke, Dorothy Clotelle | |||
| Narrativa visual de la enfermedad en las Cantigas de Santa María Corti, Francisco | |||
| Arquitectura civil española de los siglos I al XIII Lampérez y Romea, Vicente | |||
| La Poésie lyrique espagnole et portugaise à la fin du Moyen Âge Le Gentil, Pierre | |||
| Poesía juglaresca y juglares: aspectos de la historia literaria y cultural de España Menéndez Pidal, Ramón | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X, O Sábio: aspectos culturais e literários Vaz Leão, Angela | |||