Gaude flore virginali (Anonymous)

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  • (Posted 2016-03-05)  CPDL #38773:    (MIDI) (XML)
Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2016-03-05).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 153 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The asterisks above the notes and rests mark the editorial fillings of missing mesures in the manuscript. The section within square brackets is a correction suggested by Mick Swithinbank and approved by Prof. Felix Diergarten

General Information

Title: Gaude flore virginali
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATT
Genre: SacredMotetVotive antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript post 1445 in Trent codices - Tr89, no. 89-131
    Manuscript post 1445 in Trent codices - Tr89, no. – 89-133
    Manuscript 1525 in Lambeth Choirbook, no. 11
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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Gaude flore virginali
Honoreque speciali
Transcendens splendiferum
Angelorum principatum
Et sanctorum decoratum
Dignitate numerum.

Gaude sponsa cara Dei,
Nam ut clara lux diei
Solis datur lumine,
Sic tu facis orbem vere
Tuæ pacis resplendere
Lucis plenitudine.

Gaude splendens vas virtutum,
Cuius pendens est ad nutum
Tota cæli curia.
Te benignam et felicem
Jesu dignam genitricem
Veneratur in gloria.

Gaude nexu voluntatis
Et amplexu caritatis
Juncta sis altissimo,
Ut ad votum consequaris
Quicquid virgo postularis
A Jesu dulcissimo.

Gaude mater miserorum,
Quia pater sæculorum
Dabit te colentibus
Congruentem hic mercedem
Et felicem poli sedem
Regnis in cælestibus.

A translation (including 2 additional verses) may be found at Gaude flore virginali (Edmund_Turges).