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William P. Shepard, Frank M. Chambers, eds.The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP 1950), pp. 3–25.
As Archer Taylor once said, “The definition of a proverb is too difficult to repay the undertaking,”The Proverb and An Index to the Proverb (1931, 1934; rpt. Hatboro, PA: Folklore Association, 1962), p. 3.
Susanne Schmarje,Das Sprichwörtliche Material in des Essais von Montaigne Teil I, Kapitel III, translated and cited by James Woodrow Hassell, Jr,Middle French Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases, Subsidia medievalia 12 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1982) pp. 4–5.
Eugen Cnyrim,Sprichwörter, Sprichwörterliche Redensarten und Sentenzen bei den Provenzalischen Lyrikern, Ausgaben und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Romanischen Philologie LXXI (Marburg: N.G. Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1888); Joseph Morawski,Proverbes français antérieurs au XVe siècle (Paris: Champion, 1925); James Woodrow Hassell, Jr,Middle French Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases, Subsidia medievalia 12 (Toronto; Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1982).
Cnyrim # 634; this proverb is cited by Cnyrim under the heading “Klugheit, Verstand;” no reference is made to the Biblical source.
See Lynne Lawner, “Tot es niens,”Cultura neolatina 31 (1971) pp. 155–170.
Ademar de Rocaficha, “Si amors fos conoyssens,” 11, 9–12,Provenzalische Inedita aus Pariser Handschriften, ed. Carl Appel (1892; rpt. Wiesbaden: Dr. Martin Sändig oHG., 1967) p. 7; Cnyrim # 594.
It is interesting, in light of recent researches by Margaret Switten and Linda Paterson (Margaret Switten, “The Poet as Knight,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 27, 1984) that Aimeric distinguishes betweentrobador andcavalier in this stanza. Switten has observed that by 1180, the termcavalier was used to refer to the poet-lover, and that in the fourteenth-century manuscript M, where the troubadourvidas are accompanied by illustrations, all the troubadours are presented as knights.
Claude Buridant, “Nature et fonction des proverbes dans lesJeux-partis,”Revue des sciences humaines 163 (1976), p. 398.
Wendy Pfeffer, “The Riddle of the Proverb,”The Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Toronto 1983), ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Robert A. Taylor (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985) pp. 253–263.
Geoffrey of Vinsauf,Poetria nova, 11. 126–127 in Edmond Faral,Les Arts poétiques du XIIe et du XIIIe siècle (Paris: Champion, 1924) p. 201, “Si pars prima velit majus diffundere lumen/. . . sententia sumpta.”
Shepard, Chambers, p. 40.
Ibid., p. 3.
Ibid., p. 243 n.
I thank Douglas Kelly for his suggestion that medieval rhetoricians advised the coining of proverbs. Although I have not been able to find a medieval source for such creation, Geoffrey of Vinsauf does speak of the augmentation of proverbial material: see Geoffrey of Vinsauf,Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi, tr. Roger P. Parr (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette UP, 1968) pp. 57–58, II. B §§ 53–56.
Morawski, # 790.
Hassell F106.
Morawski # 766-# 798.
Morawski # 1287 and # 1295; Hassell H62.
Cnyrim # 703.
See, for example, Marie de France,Medieval Fables, tr. Jeanette Beer (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1983).
Morawski, # 283 or # 2451; Hassell J36.
Pfeffer, “The Riddle of the Proverb.”
Pfeffer, pp. 258–260.
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Pfeffer, W. ‘Eu l'auzi dir en un ver reprovier’ Aimeric de Peguilhan's use of the proverb. Neophilologus 70, 520–527 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02001207
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