Guilhem de Berguedan, Mal o fe lo bisbe d’Urgel (BdT 210.15) A history of instruments and music

The piece Mal o fe lo bisbe d’Urgel (BdT 210.15) by Guilhem de Berguedan, of which there is only one manuscript (MS D, fol. 129v) is part of the troubadour’s anticlerical cycle criticizing Bishop Urgel. In its only copy, line twenty-three is incomplete and line twenty-five appears to contain a copying error, unnoticed until now, including by Martín de Riquer, its last editor. Regarding this precise point, we argue in favor of making a correction to the text transmitted by D.