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Abstract

It has never been noticed that the Old French song RS 845a Las ne [me] doi por ce desesperer, preserved by a single witness, is the anisosyllabic version of the isosyllabic RS 789 Meudre ocoison n'euç onques de chanter. Gianfranco Contini's remark on Bonvesin da la Riva's texts about the danger of trusting in metrical irregularities gathered by a codex unicus is renewed by this paper, as well as by analysing the song RS 836, anisosyllabic in Mölk and Wolfzettel's metrical Répertoire.

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Title
Why the codex unicus Is Still Dangerous for Medieval Metrics: Joining the Old French Anisosyllabic Song RS 845a to the Isosyllabic RS 789
Author
Sangiovanni, Fabio
Pages
539-552
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Oct 2016
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
00282677
e-ISSN
15728668
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-016-9495-3
ProQuest document ID
1819665755
Copyright
Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016