Mater digna Dei (Gaspar van Weerbeke)

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• (Posted 2021-09-10)  CPDL #65711:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2021-09-10).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 47 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Petrucci, Motetti A. ... 1502.

General Information

Title: Mater digna Dei
Composer: Gaspar van Weerbeke
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1502 in Motetti A (Petrucci), no. 34
    Manuscript 1522 in Biblioteca Capitolare di Padua MS A.17, no. 104
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

Mater digna Dei, veniae via luxque diei,
sis tutela rei, duxque comesque mei.

Nata Dei, miserere mei,
lux alma diei, digna coli,
regina poli, me linquere noli,
me tibi, virgo pia genitrix, commendo, Maria.

Jesu fili Dei, tu miserere mei.