En algunas versiones de la Visio Willelmi de Piers Plowman (c. 1367) [1], como en la contenida en los MSS. de la British Library, Lansdowne, 762, fols. 93v-101v y Arundel 506, fol. 46v [2], aparecen estos versos macarrónicos (documentados desde 1290 en John Peckham, cf. FICHA nº 19: https://juliomontanes.synology.me/bases/textos/index.php?-table=textos&-action=browse&-cursor=0&Numero=19), que en el MS Douce 104 de Oxford (Texto C, fol. 112v, 1427) se complementan con los siguientes que aparecen al final del manuscrito (véase FICHA nº 35: On chattering in church: https://juliomontanes.synology.me/bases/textos/?-table=textos&-action=browse&-cursor=0&Numero=35):
......................................................................................................"Tutivillus, the devil of hell,
......................................................................................................He writeth har names, sothe to tell,
......................................................................................................Ad missam garulantes.
......................................................................................................Better wer be at home for ay
......................................................................................................Than her to serve the Devil to pay,
......................................................................................................Sic vana famulantes.
......................................................................................................Thes women that sitteth the church about,
......................................................................................................Thay beth all of the Develis rowte,
......................................................................................................Divina impedientes...."
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[1] Hay 3 versiones distintas, A, B y C, más de 50 Mss. y centenares de ediciones impresas.
[2] Véase HERBERT, John Alexander, Catalogue of romances in the Department of manuscripts in the British museum, Trustees of British Museum, Londres, 1910, vol. III, pp. 555-56, nº 198.
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REFERENCIAS:
BROWN, Carleton (ed.), Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1939, p. 277.
CAWSEY, Kathy, Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings, Boydell & Brewer, Cambridge, 2020, pp. 129. Disponible: https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/images-of-language-in-middle-english-vernacular-writings.html.
COFFIN TAYLOR, George, "Relations of Lyric and Drama in Mediaeval England", en: Modern Philology, University of Chicago Press, vol. 5 (1908), p. 13.
DELEPIERRE, Octave, Macaronéana, ou Mélanges de littérature macaronique des différents peuples de l'Europe, G. Gancia, París & Brighton, 1852, p. 189. Disponible: https://books.google.com.py/books?id=4rtPAAAAcAAJ
JENNINGS, Margaret, "Tutivillus. The Literary Career of the Recording Demon", en: Studies in Philology, LXXIV, nº 5 (1977), pp. 1-95 ( p. 34-35). Disponible: https://homepages.uc.edu/~martinj/Mediaeval%20Logic%20&%20Philosophy/Misc%20Texts%20and%20Secondary%20Sources/Jennings%20-%20The%20Literary%20Career%20of%20the%20Recording%20Demon.pdf.
MIDDLETON, Anne, "The Audience and Public of Piers Plowman", en: Middle English alliterative poetry and its literary background : seven essays (David Lawton, ed.), D. S. Brewer, Cambridge, 1982, pp. 101-123 y notas pp. 147-154. Disponible: https://basicedu.uodiyala.edu.iq/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Middle_English_Alliterative_Poetry.pdf
WRIGHT, Thomas, Langland Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, (1842 ed.) vol. 2, p. 547. Disponible: https://books.google.es/books?id=2fxLAAAAcAAJ
WRIGHT, Thomas, Reliquiæ Antiquæ: Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language, volumen 1, Londres, J. R. Smith, 1845. Disponible: https://archive.org/details/reliquiaeantiqua01wriguoft
ZIEMAN, Katherine, Singing the New Song : Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England, University of Pennsylvania Press, Filadelfia, 2008, p. 64. Disponible: https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/singing-the-new-song-literacy-and-liturgy-in-late-medieval-england-9780812203882.html.
En internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Plowman http://www.s4ulanguages.com/piers-plowman.html http://piers.iath.virginia.edu/
Ediciones en inglés moderno: http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/langland/pp-pro.html http://www.archive.org/stream/visionandcreedof02languoft/visionandcreedof02languoft_djvu.txt http://books.google.es/books?id=ljcJAAAAQAAJ
Manuscritos:
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104: http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/msdouce104.htm
Londres, British Library, Ms. Lansdowne 762, f. 93v: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/imev/record.php?recID=2783
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. 201 (texto B, finales del siglo XIV): http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=corpus&manuscript=ms201
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