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Machaut’s Literary Legacy in the Crown of Aragon: the Catalan Chansonnier Vega-Aguiló and the anonymous Roman de Cardenois
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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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ALBERNI, Anna. Machaut’s Literary Legacy in the Crown of Aragon: the Catalan Chansonnier Vega-Aguiló and the anonymous Roman de Cardenois. Capítol del llibre: Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France (MFLCOF). Studies in the Moving Word. ed. Nicola Morato. Vol. Dirk Schoeaners, num. Brepols, pags. Turnhout. [consulted: 17 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/177383