Esta é como Santa María fez parecer nas pédras omágẽes a sa semellança.
| Line | Refrain | Metrics | |
| 1 | Nas mentes sempre tẽer | 7 A | |
| 2 | devemo-las sas feituras | 7' B | |
| 3 | da Virgen, pois receber | 7 A | |
| 4 | as foron as pédras duras. | 7' B | |
| Stanza I | |||
| 5 | Per quant' éu dizer oí | 7 c | |
| 6 | a muitos que foron i, †CSM 29:6As Mettmann notes, [E] begins this line with a omẽes, [T] has a muitos written over an erasure, and [To] has a omes in the main text with a muitos in the margin. Elmes has "a omé-es" (his first volume has acute accents in place of tildes), which is just a misreading of [E] a o•mẽes due to the words and musical notes in the manuscript being rather bunched up. I've chosen to stick with Mettmann's choice of muitos, but the [To] form ómes, which also scans correctly, would be quite acceptable too. | 7 c | |
| 7 | na santa Gessemaní | 7 c | |
| 8 | foron achadas figuras | 7' B | |
| 9 | da Madre de Déus, assí | 7 c | |
| 10 | que non foron de pinturas. | 7' B | |
| Nas mentes sempre tẽer... | |||
| Stanza II | |||
| 11 | Nen ar entalladas non | 7 c | |
| 12 | foron, se Déus me perdôn, | 7 c | |
| 13 | e havía i faiçôn | 7 c | |
| 14 | da Sennor das aposturas | 7' B | |
| 15 | con séu Fill', e per razôn | 7 c | |
| 16 | feitas ben per sas mesuras. | 7' B | |
| Nas mentes sempre tẽer... | |||
| Cantigas de Santa Maria for Singers ©2013 by Andrew Casson www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/csm/29 | |||
| Stanza III | |||
| 17 | Porên as resprandecer | 7 c | |
| 18 | fez tan muit' e parecer, | 7 c | |
| 19 | per que devemos creer | 7 c | |
| 20 | que é Sennor das naturas, | 7' B | |
| 21 | que nas cousas há poder | 7 c | |
| 22 | de fazer craras d' escuras. | 7' B | |
| Nas mentes sempre tẽer... | |||
| Stanza IV | |||
| 23 | Déus x' as quise figurar | 7 c | |
| 24 | en pédra por nos mostrar | 7 c | |
| 25 | que a sa Madre honrrar | 7 c | |
| 26 | deven todas creaturas, | 7' B | |
| 27 | pois deceu carne fillar | 7 c | |
| 28 | en ela das sas alturas. | 7' B | |
| Nas mentes sempre tẽer... | |||
Footnotes
| Line 6: | As Mettmann notes, [E] begins this line with a omẽes, [T] has a muitos written over an erasure, and [To] has a omes in the main text with a muitos in the margin. Elmes has "a omé-es" (his first volume has acute accents in place of tildes), which is just a misreading of [E] a o•mẽes due to the words and musical notes in the manuscript being rather bunched up. I've chosen to stick with Mettmann's choice of muitos, but the [To] form ómes, which also scans correctly, would be quite acceptable too. |
Manuscript references
External links marked 
are to facsimiles on Greg Lindahl's Cantigas de Santa Maria website.
| [E] | 29 | viewhttp://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/103small.htmlExternal link |
| [T] | 29 | |
| [To] | 29 | view p1http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob027small.gifExternal link view p2http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/To/bob028small.gifExternal link |
Oxford CSM Database record
External link to poem data: CSM 29http://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=29
Links to the Oxford database are provided with the kind permission of the project team. When planning a concert or recording, I would recommend that you use (and credit) my more pragmatic texts and supporting materials in the preparation of your performance, but that you request permission from the Oxford database team to reproduce (and credit) their own critically edited texts in your programme or liner notes, as these adhere to stricter criteria that keep them closer to the original sources, and undoubtedly have the greater academic authority.
Metrical summary
Refrain
| 7 7' 7 7' |
Stanzas
| 7 7 7 7' 7 7' |
Rhyme
ABAB / cccBcB| R | I | II | III | IV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | eɾ | ||||
| B | uɾas | ||||
| c | i | oŋ | eɾ | aɾ | |
Estimated performance times
| Average syllables / min. | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Very slow | 50 | 6:31 |
| Slow | 100 | 3:15 |
| Medium | 150 | 2:10 |
| Fast | 200 | 1:37 |
| Very fast | 250 | 1:18 |
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: 326
