«E membre vos co·us trobei a Pavia». Affioramenti trobadorici nella biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile

This paper focuses on a parchment sheet from a lost troubadour chansonnier, recently discovered in the library of the Seminario in Pavia. Written at the end of 13th or at the beginning of 14th century, perhaps in an atelier of the northern Tyrrhenian area, it was subsequently reused to reinforce the binding of a 16h century printed book. The fragment, which is identified as Pv, contains the vidas and some poems by Guillem de Berguedan and Raimbaut d’Aurenga. Two remarkable variant readings preserved by Pv testify to its relevance for the Venetian branch known as ε in the transmission of troubadour chansonniers: the fragment contains the signature of Uc de Saint Circ in the text of Raimbaut d’Aurenga’s vida, and a verse of a sirventes by Guillem de Berguedan (BdT 210.19) hitherto unknown. Furthermore, the study of the script and of the decoration of the fragment indicates that Pv belonged to the same dismantled manuscript as two other chansonnier fragments separately discovered during t...