A salut d'amor[a] (Occitan: [saˈlyd daˈmuɾ], Catalan: [səˈlud dəˈmoɾ, saˈlud daˈmoɾ]; "love letter", lit.
There are a total of nineteen surviving Occitan saluts and twelve French ones,[b] with a Catalan examples (of the salutació amorosa) also.
The poetic form probably derives from the classical Latin love letter and through a blending of the ars dictaminis and the early Occitan canso.
Occitan scholar Pierre Bec argued that the salut was tripartite, possessing an introduction, body, and conclusion.
[2] The first salut d'amor was probably Domna, cel qe'us es bos amics, written by Raimbaut d'Aurenga and he served as a model for many later troubadours.