Adam of the Market

See also: Adam (homonymy)

Adam of the Market (known as Adam of Arras or the Uneven of Arras ) is a Trouvère French born at the 13th century (towards 1240) with Arras, died towards 1287 in the south of the Italy at the court of the count d' Artois or after its return to Arras, in 1306.

Biography

There do not exist any documents giving of the indications on the life of this trouvere, which is known is drawn from the manuscripts of its works. It is named Adam of the Market and also Adam the uneven one, and would be the son of a Master Henri the Uneven one, who is employed with the échevinage of Arras.Il would have studied at the university of Paris, and would have obtained the title of Master are ars. He is the author of the Jeu of Robin and Marion in 1275 - which meets a sharp success because of the overflowing life of its protagonists - as well as Jeu of broken into leaf the in 1276.

About 1282, it accompanies with Naples the duke Robert II by Artois, where it gives in 1284 his Jeu of Marion and Robin to the court of Charles of Anjou.

Adam of the Market is probably deceased with Naples in 1287, according to the explicit of the copy dated from the Candlemas 1288 of the Novel of Troy by Jean Madot, his nephew, and by the author of the Play of the Pilgrim who claims to have been on the tomb of the poet with the count d' Artois.

However is main bit Adans, Dieus Li annoys merchi
has tomble esté myself, gift Jhesu Crist merchi!

According to an assumption of Fabienne Gégou, Adam of the Market would not have died in 1288, but would have lived until 1306 goes back to it to which it would have been announced among the 175 ménéstrels present in Westminster at the time of the princely festival of Pentecost. This assertion sujete with controversies, is disputed by the other specialists in the trouvere.

Works

Its poetic and musical work contains songs (36 known), play-parties (18), rondos (16, rondets of caroles and rondos polyphonic), polyphonic motets (5), two big games: play of Marion and Robin , and play of broken into leaf the , a novel: the king of Sicily , stanzas of love, stanzas of death, and a leave . Its ballades were not preserved.

One finds his works in the following manuscripts:

  • Handwritten 657 of the library of Arras.
  • Handwritten 308 of the Bodleian library of Oxford
  • Handwritten 837 (P"), 844 (M), 846 (O), 847 (P), 1109 (Q), 12786 (K), 1569 (P'), 1591 (R), 12615 (T), 24406 (V), 25566 (W and W' ƒ.2-9) of the National library of France (French funds).
  • Handwritten 236 of the library of the medical college of Montpellier
  • Manuscript 1490 of the Vaticane library of Rome

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