Como Santa María fez parecer a sa omage d' ontre ũas pédras mármores que asserravan en Costantinópla.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Con razôn nas creaturas figura póde mostrar | 7'7 A | |
| 2 | Déus de si ou de sa Madre, pois elas quis fegurar. | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 3 | Ca en fegurar as cousas da fegura que hoj' han | 7'7 b | |
| 4 | nen d' outras naturas muitas, non prendeu nen prend' afán | 7'7 b | |
| 5 | Déus, nen sól filla cuidado de as fegurar, ca tan | 7'7 b | |
| 6 | gran poder há no começo ben come no acabar. | 7'7 A | |
| Con razôn nas creaturas figura póde mostrar... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 7 | E porende, se nas pédras faz feguras parecer, | 7'7 b | |
| 8 | non dev' aquesto null' hóme por maravilla tẽer, | 7'7 b | |
| 9 | nen outrossí enas érvas, ca el xe as faz nacer | 7'7 b | |
| 10 | e dá-lles muitas coores por a nós ben semellar. | 7'7 A | |
| Con razôn nas creaturas figura póde mostrar... | |||
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| Stanza III | |||
| 11 | Porend' en Costantinópla avẽo, com' aprendí, | 7'7 b | |
| 12 | que Don Manüél, o bõo Emperador, mandou i | 7'7 b | |
| 13 | fazer eigreja mui nóbre; e mármores, com' oí, | 7'7 b | |
| 14 | mandou trager de mui longe e per meo asserrar | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza IV | |||
| 15 | por fazer távoas grandes pora põer en redor | 7'7 b | |
| 16 | do altar da Virgen santa, Madre de Nóstro Sennor. | 7'7 b | |
| 17 | E u serravan un deles, viron dentro de coor | 7'7 b | |
| 18 | a sa omagen pintada, ben qual xa quis Déus pintar, †CSM 342:18Like the previous CSM 341, this cantiga also has a gap in [E], and is not included in any other manuscript. The gap here is the size of one stanza, and it appears from the stanzas that precede and follow it that all of the missing text must be taken up with a description of the image of the Virgin found in the marble. I will therefore throw all caution to the wind on this occasion and suggest the following patch: remove the immediately preceding hemistich, i.e. ben qual xa quis Deus pintar, and replace it with the text a Virgen que non á par, which scans and rhymes correctly, is a very common formula in other cantigas, and joins nicely onto the trailing sentence fragment Tẽendo seu Fill' en braço. It's obviously a much shorter description than was originally intended, but it does the job. | 7'7 A | |
| Con razôn nas creaturas figura póde mostrar... | |||
| Stanza V | |||
| 19 | [...................................................] | — | |
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| Stanza VI | |||
| 20 | tẽendo séu Fill' en braço, que dela carne fillou. | 7'7 b | |
| 21 | Poi-lo Emperador esto soube, lógo cavalgou, | 7'7 b | |
| 22 | e pois que viu a omagen, tan tóste a aorou | 7'7 b | |
| 23 | e fez-la põer na pórta per u havían d' entrar, | 7'7 A | |
| Stanza VII | |||
| 24 | e alí sé hoge día, en que han gran devoçôn | 7'7 b | |
| 25 | todos. E a Santa Virgen fez esto por tal razôn, | 7'7 b | |
| 26 | porque póde do culpado omannar-ll' o coraçôn | 7'7 b | |
| 27 | da sa graça, pois la pédra mui dura foi omannar. | 7'7 A | |
| Con razôn nas creaturas figura póde mostrar... | |||
Footnotes
| Line 18: | Like the previous CSM 341, this cantiga also has a gap in [E], and is not included in any other manuscript. The gap here is the size of one stanza, and it appears from the stanzas that precede and follow it that all of the missing text must be taken up with a description of the image of the Virgin found in the marble. I will therefore throw all caution to the wind on this occasion and suggest the following patch: remove the immediately preceding hemistich, i.e. ben qual xa quis Deus pintar, and replace it with the text a Virgen que non á par, which scans and rhymes correctly, is a very common formula in other cantigas, and joins nicely onto the trailing sentence fragment Tẽendo seu Fill' en braço. It's obviously a much shorter description than was originally intended, but it does the job. |
Footnotes
| E1: | The word Deus here was originally missed out from the manuscript, but it was added as a later correction, and the number of notes and ligatures is right. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 342 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/609small.htmlExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 342http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=342
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Metrical summary
Refrain
| 7' | 7 7' | 7 |
Stanzas
| 7' | 7 7' | 7 7' | 7 7' | 7 |
Rhyme
AA / bbbA| R | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | aɾ | aɾ | ||||||
| b | aŋ | eɾ | i | oɾ | ou̯ | oŋ | ||
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 12:00 |
| Slow | 100 | 6:00 |
| Medium | 150 | 4:00 |
| Fast | 200 | 3:00 |
| Very fast | 250 | 2:23 |
These are very approximate total times for a full sung (or spoken) performance of all stanzas with all repeats of the refrain. Note that the speed is in average syllables per minute, and no particular mensural interpretation is assumed. More ornamented music will reduce the syllabic speed considerably. Remember also to add time for instrumental preludes, interludes and postludes.
Total syllables: 600
