Achille Caulier's Ospital d'Amours, a 15th-century French love poem, exists in 20
different manuscripts housed in libraries from Paris to Vienna. Like most medieval literary
works, its text varies from manuscript to manuscript, with no version necessarily standing
out as the most correct. In the Middle Ages, it was common for different versions of a text
to exist side by side, and variation among texts was not perceived as a problem.
On this site, you may consult any of the twenty versions, or a collation of each stanza.
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