Martin Codax – Mia Irmana Fremosa, treides comigo (13th century) Martin Codax was probably a Galician minstrel active in the mid- to third quarter of the 13th century. Although he is one of only two authors present in the medieval Portuguese songbooks whose compositions were also preserved in an individual manuscript, the so-called Vindel Parchment, where they are accompanied by their respective musical notation (the other author being King Dinis, with the Sharrer Parchment), nothing concrete is known about his biography. His surname seems to rule out the possibility of a high social status. He would therefore have been a minstrel or jongleur, probably linked to Vigo, Spain, a location repeatedly mentioned in his compositions. "Mia Irmana Fremosa, treides comigo" is one of the best-known Cantiga de Amigo by Codax. In it, the maiden urges her beautiful sister to go to the sanctuary of Vigo, where the sea is rough, to watch the waves.…