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CSM Number : 94 | |||
Short name: | The Nun who Ran Away with a Knight | Alternative: | Beatrix custos seu sacrista |
Incipit: | De vergonna nos guardar/ punna todavia | ||
Refrain: | De vergonna nos guardar/ punna todavia/ e de falir e d’ errar/ a Virgen Maria. | ||
Summary of narrative | |||
Setting: | unspecified | Protagonist(s): | a nun, the treasurer of a convent |
A nun, the treasurer of a convent, fell in love with a knight and decided to leave. Before she departed, she prayed to the Virgin. She commended herself to her and left her keys on the altar. She lived with the knight for years and they had several children. The Virgin diligently performed the nun’s duties in her absence. Eventually, the nun repented, left the knight, and went back to the convent. She found her former clothes and her keys where she had left them. She told the nuns what had transpired and to prove it, had the knight summoned. The nuns were impressed and began to sing. |
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Metrical data | |||
Stanza: | 7 7 7' 7 7 7' 7 5' 7 5' | Refrain: | 7 5' 7 5' |
No. of Stanzas: | 11 | ||
Rhyme scheme: | ABAB | ccdccdabab | Zejel: | Yes |
MS locations: | |||
T94, E94, To31 | |||
Poncelet reference | |||
Clericus quidam monialem sacristanam de peccato diu (194) | |||
Keywords | |||
convent, elope, impersonation, key, knight, nun, Saint John, treasurer | |||
Discography | |||
Click HERE for a list of recordings of this poem | |||
Miracle | Collection | ||
The Nun Who Saw the World [Beatrice; B.V. takes nun's place] | Gautier de Coinci |
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The Nun Who Saw the World [Beatrice; B.V. takes nun's place] | Adgar (London, BL, Egerton 612) |
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The Nun Who Saw the World [Beatrice; B.V. takes nun's place] | Vendôme Collection (Vendôme, Bibliothèque Publique MS 185) |
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The Nun Who Saw the World [Beatrice; B.V. takes nun's place] | Johannes Herolt |
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Beatrice the Sacristan | Caesarius of Heisterbach |
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The Nun Who Saw the World [Beatrice; B.V. takes nun's place] | Anglo-Norman Miracles of the Virgin (London, BL, Royal 20 B XIV, fols 102v-169) |
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BITAGAP ID | |||
3811 | |||
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 | |||
The Oxford Book of Portuguese Verse Bell, Aubrey F. G. | |||
Alfonso X, el Sabio, y la Cantiga XCIV Blume Sánchez, Jaime | |||
De la monia que sse foi de moesteiro Blume, Jaime | |||
The Early Seguidilla Clarke, Dorothy Clotelle | |||
Una cantiga célebre del Rey Sabio. Fuentes y desarrollo de la leyenda de Sor Beatriz, principalmente en la literatura española Cotarelo y Valledor, Armando | |||
Sources of the Cantigas of Alfonso el Sabio [AC] Dexter, Elise Forsythe | |||
The Medieval Lyric Dronke, Peter | |||
Afonso X e Galicia, e unha escolma de cantigas Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
Nosa Señora das Chaves Filgueira Valverde, José | |||
Los poetas del Guadiana a Alfonso el Sabio Gonzalez Lara, José, director de publicación | |||
La Légende de la Sacristine. Étude de littérature comparée. Guiette, Robert | |||
Hymns to Saint Mary Keller, John Esten | |||
La Poésie lyrique espagnole et portugaise à la fin du Moyen Âge Le Gentil, Pierre | |||
A Preliminary Bibliography of Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry in English Translation Longland, Jean R. | |||
Cantigas de Santa Maria de Alfonso X el Sabio, rey de Castilla López Serrano, Matilde | |||
Itinéraire espagnol du conte médiéval (VIIIs-XVs) Marsan, Rameline E. | |||
Afonso X e as Cantigas de Santa Maria localizadas en Galicia Negri, Manuel | |||
Antología de Alfonso el Sabio Peña, Margarita | |||
Textos de literatura portuguesa. I: Afonso X, o Sábio Rodrigues Lapa, Manuel | |||
La pecadora penitente en el teatro español: Sus fuentes y evolución Sánchez Castañer y Mena, Francisco | |||
Alfonso X, el Sabio. Antología Solalinde, Antonio G. | |||
Historia de la literatura gallega. Varela Jácome, Benito | |||
Alfonso the Wise, King of Castille Ward, Mary |