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Dear List,
The prayer in French called 'Quindecim gaudia de Beata Virgine Maria,
(The 15 Joys of the Virgin) has puzzled me lately, when I made an
attempt to create a system suitable for database registration.
All the 15 (really mostly 14) Joys are referring to events from
the Gospels, exept the one with the text:
'quant vous le sentistes mouvoir en vos doulx flans'
It follows immediately after the Visitation, where it really
is St.John who moved in the womb of Elizabeth according to
tradition, and not Jesus. Full text is quoted below*
The anomymous author has transferred the movement of the child
from Elizabeth to Mary - something which has caused me to
suspect a strong female influence on the author.
Now is my problem to find a suitable term for this incidence.
After several days of search have I not yet found any established
cathegory describing it in liturgy or in iconography.
Any suggestions? And does it have a litterary source?
Thanks in advance
Erik Drigsdahl
*
[2] E tres doulce dame pour icelle grant ioie que vous eustes
quant uous alastes a la montaigne visiter sainte elizabeth vostre cousine .
et elle vous dit que vous esties benoite sur toutes aultres femmes .
et que le fruit de vostre ventre estoit benoit.
Doulce dame pries lui quil vueille rassasier mon ame.
Ave maria gracia.
[3] E tres doulce dame pour icelle grant ioie que vous eustes
quant vous le sentistes mouvoir en vos doulx flans.
Doulce dame pries lui quil vueille esmouvoir mon cuer
a lui servir et amer. Ave maria gracia.
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Mag.art. Erik Drigsdahl CHD Center for Haandskriftstudier i Danmark
Kapelvej 25B 3.tv Phone: +45 +35 37 20 47
DK-2200 Copenhagen N Email: <[log in to unmask]>
DENMARK http://www.chd.dk
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