On the meaning of gueri in Petrus Caxaro's Cantilena

Abstract

G. Aquilina states that "the authors had to contend not only with difficulties of an arbitrary spelling in a hand very difficult to read, but also with the unravelling of the obscure meaning of several obsolete words which they have explained tentatively through Arabic". Undoubtedly, the authors' approach to this hitherto unknown text was the right one since the lexicon of the Cantilena is predominantly of semitic origin.