(fl 1225–52). French trouvère, younger brother of Guillaume le Vinier. He came from a bourgeois family of Arras and was a canon of the churches of Lille and Arras, which he represented in legal proceedings between 1225 and 1234. He established benefices at Arras between 1236 and 1246, the last following the death of his brother Guillaume. One of his songs (R.140) mentions a trip to the Holy Land, although this is not documented elsewhere. A Requiem Mass was prescribed for ‘Dominus Aegidius’, evidently the trouvère, at Arras Cathedral on 13 November 1252. Seven songs are securely attributed to Gilles le Vinier. Two chansons, Amors ki me le comande and Au partir de la froidure, have ‘echo rhymes’ of one- or two-syllable words that match the rhyme sounds of the preceding verses (ex.1). The melodies of three of his four chansons and two jeux-partis have a conventional ABABx structure. He also composed a lai/descort with ten stanzas, the last four of which consist of unpaired verses and music.
MS sources: F-Pn fr.844, 845, 847, 12615, n.a. fr.1050, F-Pa 5198, F-AS 657, I-Rvat reg. 1490 (for details see Linker)
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Aler m'estuet la ou je trerai paine, R.140 |
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Amors ki le me comande, R.257 |
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Au partir de la froidure, R.2101a |
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Beaus m'est prins tans au partir de fevrier, R.1280 |
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A ce m'acort, R.1928, ed. in Jeanroy |
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Frere, ki fait mieus a prisier, R.1293 |
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Maistre Simon, d'un essample nuvel, R.572 |
A. Jeanroy, L. Brandin and P. Aubry: Lais et descorts français du XIIIe siècle: texte et musique (Paris, 1901), 16–18, 89–91
A. Metcke: Die Lieder des altfranzösischen Lyrikers Gille le Vinier (diss., U. of Halle, 1906) [incl. complete text edn]
A. Långfors, A. Jeanroy and L. Brandin, eds.: Recueil général des jeux-partis français (Paris, 1926), ii, 112–26 [incl. text edns]
H. Spanke: ‘Sequenz und Lai’, Studi medievali, new ser., xi (1938), 12–68, esp. 47
R. Berger: ‘Archidiacres, officiaux, dignitaires du chapitre d'Arras (1093–1300): essai de chronologie’, Bulletin de la Commission départementale des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais, viii (1970), 525
R.W. Linker: A Bibliography of Old French Lyrics (University, MS, 1979), 160–61
ELIZABETH AUBREY