Martín Codax
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Martín Codax (or Martim Codax) was a medieval Galician troubadour, possibly from Vigo, Galicia, who lived between the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century. Little information about him exists.
The body of literary work attributed to him is limited to seven cantigas de amigo that appear in the lyrics of Portuguese-Galician songbooks and in the Vindel parchment, in which he is listed as the author of the compositions.
The discovery of this parchment was by sheer chance: the antiquarian bookseller Pedro Vindel in Madrid found it in his library at the beginning of the 20th century, lining a copy of Cicero's De Officiis.
Martín Codax's poems that appeared in the parchment are the following (untitled, they are listed by their first verse):
- Ondas do mar de Vigo
- Mandad'ey comigo
- Mha irmana fremosa treydes comygo
- Ay Deus se sab'ora meu amado
- Quantas sabedes amar amigo
- En o sagrad' e Vigo
- Ay ondas que eu vin veer
In the Vindel parchment the musical notation of the poems survives alongside their texts, except for the sixth one. They are the only secular mediæval Galician verse for which the music is known.
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