Ramon Llull's works in «noves rimades»: metrics and verse writing in Guillem Pagès' copies

Abstract

This paper presents a description of the versification phenomena that can be found in three texts written by Ramon Llull: Pecat d’Adam, D’oració (fifth part of Medicina de pecat), and Aplicació de l’Art general. This selection follows a double criterion: all three works are composed according to the same versification model (noves rimades), and extant manuscript copies of these works were made by the same scribe, Guillem Pagès. The metric and strophic analysis of these texts highlights the metric regularity in the writing of the author, as well as the kind of poetic licences used in these works. Furthermore, the analysis of Pagès’ copies shows that this scribe paid great attention to the metrics and the syllabic representation of the verse.