Flos de virga nascitur (Jennifer Bastable)

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(Posted 2025-10-09) CPDL #87065:

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-10-09). Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 438 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Flos de virga nascitur
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB + Soprano solo
Genre: Sacred, Anthem, Carol

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A Marian text from the thirteenth century Montpellier Codex, set for SSATB. The first nine bars are for a soprano soloist, intended to be sung from within the choir.

External websites:

Article, "The Montpellier Codex (c1275)"

Original text and translations

Latin text

Flos de virga nascitur, sol de radio,
radius incenditur sole previo,
In misterio virge virgo panditur flos in filio.
O que compassio,
O quanta miseratio!
Pro remedio nostro
clauditur, fusus matris gremio
Qui non circumscribitur orbis spacio.

English translation

The flower is born from the branch, the sun from a beam of light,
The beam set alight by the sun that precedes it.
In mystery a virgin branch reveals its flower in form of the Son.
Oh what compassion,
Oh what mercy!
For our healing,
confined and cast within a mother's womb,
is not bound by the space of the world.