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Marcabru
Auias de chan com enans’e meillura
293.
9
Marcabru
Auias de chan com enans’e meillura
293.
9
Marcabru
Text

Edition: Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson 2000; notes: Ruth Harvey. – Rialto 3.i.2003.

Mss.

A (30r-v), E (152), I (118v), K (104v), d (305r).

Critical Editions / Other Editions

Previous editions: Jean-Marie-Lucien Dejeanne, Poésies complètes du troubadour Marcabru, Toulouse 1909, p. 37; Aurelio Roncaglia, «Aujatz de chan», Cultura neolatina, 17, 1957, pp. 20-48; Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 131.

Metrics and music

Versification: a10’ a10’ b10’ b10’ (Frank, 130 note), nine coblas unissonans. Frank (190:1) and Roncaglia («Aujatz de chan», pp. 26-27) propose an alternative description: a10’ [= 4 + 6’] a10’ [= 4 + 6’] b10’ [= 4c + 6’] b10’ [= 4c + 6’] which is based on an editorially-regularised internal rhyme (in -o + unstable -n) at the caesura in the second couplet of every stanza. We see Marcabru’s use of internal rhymes as fluid and, in this song, as sporadic.

General info

The address to the ‘count’ (William VIII of Poitiers) in line 25 indicates that he was still alive and, if line 20 refers to the coronation of Lothar III as Holy Roman Emperor, the song would date from some time between June 1133 and April 1137: see Ruth E. Harvey, «Marcabru, Aujatz de chan (PC 293.9): nouvelles questions», Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 114, 1998, pp. 105-135.

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