Qüestions d'amor: De vertut e d'amor
The Foundation of Friendship
Lovers ask what sustains the friendship between the Friend and the Beloved.
Question. Lovers asked the Friend and the Beloved what sustained their friendship.
The Glory of the Beloved
The Lover inquires whether the Beloved's glory is deeply loved.
ii. The Lover asked the glory of the Beloved whether it was greatly loved.
The Means to Love
The Lover asks the virtue of the sun how he can love.
iii. The Lover asked the virtue of the sun with what he could love.
The Needs of Friendship
Ladies ask what the friendship between the Lover and the Beloved requires.
iv. Ladies asked the friendship of the Lover and the Beloved what it needed.
Love's Flight
Love is said to fly by its own power.
v. Through love it flew.1
The Origin of Opposition
A bird asks from what the opposition between Lover and Beloved arises.
i. A bird that asked from what the opposition of the Lover and the Beloved arose.2
Virtuous Beginning with Fragments
Ladies of virtue ask how the Lover began to love virtuously, followed by non‑textual debris.
vi. Ladies of virtue asked the Lover with what he began to love virtuously. [Non-textual OCR debris.]3 [Non-textual OCR fragment.]4
Enduring Hardships
Prayer and Devotion ask the Lover how he can bear labors.
vii. Prayer and Devotion asked the Lover what he could endure hardships with.
Cleansing from Love
The weary friend asks the fire how to be cleansed of loving.
viii. The friend grew weary, and he asked the fire by what means he could cleanse himself of loving.5
Fear of Loving
They ask whether the friend acquired fear of loving through any virtue.
ix. They asked the friend whether by any virtue he had acquired fear of loving.6
Equality with Virtue
The friend asks if his love can equal any virtue.
x. The friend asked his Beloved whether with love he could equal any virtue.
Virtue for Making Good
The Lover asks the Beloved whether he has as great a virtue for doing good as for loving.
xi. "Beloved," said the Lover, "do you have as great a virtue for making good as for loving?"78
Read the original Catalan
Qüestió. A lamic e lamat demanaren amadors, de que vivia lur amistat.
ij. A la glòria de lamat demanà lamic, si era molt amada.
iij. A la vertut del sol demanà lamic, ab que podia amar.
iiij. A lamistat de lamic e l amat demanaren dones, de que avia necessitat. V. Per amor volava . j. aucel qui demanava, de que nexia contrarietat damic e damat.
vj. Dones de vertut demanaren al amic, ab que comensava vertuós amar. iio KamonLui. L
vij. Oració e devoció demanaren al amic, ab que podia trebayls sostenir.
viij. Hujat fo l amic, e demanà al foc, ab que poria sí metex dcsujar d amar. viiij. Demanaren al amic, si per neguna vertut avia ahuda paor d amar. X. Demanà lamic a son amat, si ab la amor poria egualar neguna vertut.
xj. Amat,2 dix la-mic: as tan gran vertut per bonificar com per amar?
Notes
- 1 ↩Subject of volava is unexpressed; most plausible antecedent is the friendship just asked about, though the clause may also belong with the following bird fragment if segmentation is damaged.
- 2 ↩Normalized nexia read as neixia ('arose/was born'); damic/damat as d'amic/d'amat. The sentence is a relative clause without a full governing frame (compare nearby A X demanà Y questions).
- 3 ↩Source 'iio KamonLui.' is OCR of the running page head 'Ramon Lull' at a page break in the Galmes 1935 scan (archive.org djvu.txt ~line 6543), not Catalan body text; left untranslated.
- 4 ↩Lone 'L' is residual OCR from the same page-head garble ('Ramon Lull') or a lost woodcut initial; not a Catalan sentence. Next real text is vij. in LlullArbreAmor.1.38.6.
- 5 ↩Reading normalized "dcsujar" as "desujar" (to cleanse/purge); the printed form looks corrupt.
- 6 ↩"ahuda" read as haguda (had/acquired); "paor d amar" as fear of loving.
- 7 ↩Normalized reading takes 'Amat,2 dix la-mic' as 'Amat, dix l'amic' (Beloved, said the Lover): the trailing '2' is treated as a footnote/OCR mark, and 'la-mic' as hyphenated 'l'amic'.
- 8 ↩Llullian 'bonificar' rendered as 'making good' (the act-correlative of goodness), consistent with neighboring sections; not flattened to generic 'doing good works'.
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