Machaut’s Literary Legacy in the Crown of Aragon: the Catalan Chansonnier Vega-Aguiló and the anonymous Roman de Cardenois
Evidence of the direct textual tradition of Guillaume de Machaut’s work in Catalonia is presently restricted to two poems contained in a mid-fifteenth century codex (1420–1430), known as the ‘Vega-Aguiló chansonnier’: Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, MS 7–8 (henceforth VeAg).1 This manuscript com...
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| Format: | book part |
| Status: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Publication Date: | 2018 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repository: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/177383 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/177383 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Literatura medieval Corona Catalanoaragonesa Medieval literature Crown of Aragon |
| Summary: | Evidence of the direct textual tradition of Guillaume de Machaut’s work in Catalonia is presently restricted to two poems contained in a mid-fifteenth century codex (1420–1430), known as the ‘Vega-Aguiló chansonnier’: Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, MS 7–8 (henceforth VeAg).1 This manuscript comprises the principal extant collection of troubadouresque verse compiled in the Crown of Aragon in the late medieval period. The pieces by Machaut are copied as anonymous cobles esparses (literally sparse or stand alone stanzas), in a folio which serves as gateway to the French section of the codex, consisting of poems by Oton de Granson, Jean de Garencières, Jacme Escrivà and another unidentified francophone Catalan poet (or rather, ballade-writer), probably Oliver de Gleu... |
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