O quam mirabilis est (Hildegard von Bingen)

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• (Posted 2025-03-07)  CPDL #84103:   

Editor: Allison Mondel (submitted 2025-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 54 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Riesencodex f.466 recto-466 verso.

General Information

Title: O quam mirabilis est
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Lyricist: Hildegard von Bingen
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: unison
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Antiphon for the Creator

Original text and translations

Latin text O quam mirabilis est prescientia divini pectoris que prescivit omnem creaturam. Nam cum Deus inspexit faciem hominis quem formavit, omnia opera sua in eadem forma hominis integra aspexit. O quam mirabilis est inspiratio que hominem sic suscitavit.

English translation Oh how miraculous is the foreknowing of the holy heart which anticipated all creation. For when God looked into the face of the human he had created he saw fulfilled all of his works in that same human form. O how miraculous is the inspiration which kindles human life. Translation by Hugh McElroy