Collection of Galician canticles (songs with music), preserved in several manuscripts
An illustration from the E codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria (Galician:[kanˈtiɣɐzðɪˈsantɐmaˈɾi.ɐ], Portuguese:[kɐ̃ˈtiɣɐʒðɨˈsɐ̃tɐmɐˈɾi.ɐ]; "Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile El Sabio (1221–1284). Traditionally, they are all attributed to Alfonso, though scholars have since established that the musicians and poets of his court were responsible for most of them, with Alfonso being credited with a few as well.[1]
It is one of the largest collections of monophonic (solo) songs from the Middle Ages and is characterized by the mention of the Virgin Mary in every song, while every tenth song is a hymn.
The Cantigas have survived in four manuscript codices: two at El Escorial, one at Madrid's National Library, and one in Florence, Italy. The E codex from El Escorial is illuminated with colored miniatures showing pairs of musicians playing a wide variety of instruments. The Códice Rico (T) from El Escorial and the one in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence (F) are richly illuminated with narrative vignettes.
^Fassler 2014, pp. 163–164.
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