Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance
Angaben zur Quelle:
96,1 (2023) 97-126
Keywords:
Jewish poetry History and criticism
;
Hebrew poetry History and criticism
;
Manuscripts, Hebrew
;
Judaism Provence rite
Abstract:
In early modern Provence, Jews and Christians alike composed sacred hymns on secular melodies (‘contrafacta’). This paper reports the discovery, in a Hebrew manuscript from the Avignon area (NLI 8°2033), of two hitherto unknown texts in Provençal written in Hebrew letters, dating to ca. 1600, that served as the melodic basis for synagogue canticles. One happens to be the earliest known example of Occitan folk poetry, while the second is a Provençal rewriting of a lewd French ‘air de cour’. The edition and analysis of these two unique Judeo-Provençal fragments reveal the literary and linguistic practices applied to songs and their texts among Jews and Christians in Southern France in the 1600s.
Note:
About Ms. Jerusalem National library Ms. Heb. 2033=28
DOI:
10.3917/rhren.096.0097
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