Spiritui sancto (Hildegard von Bingen)

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• (Posted 2025-03-07)  CPDL #84118:   

Editor: Allison Mondel (submitted 2025-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Riesencodex f.471 verso.

General Information

Title: Spiritui sancto
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Lyricist: Hildegard von Bingen
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unknown
Genre: Sacred, Chant

Language: Latin
Instruments: Unknown

First published:
Description: Responsory for St. Ursula

Original text and translations

Latin text RESPOND Spiritui sancto honor sit, qui in mente Ursule virginis virginalem turbam velut columbas collegit. Unde ipsa patriam suam sicut Abraham reliquit. REPETENDA Et etiam propter amplexionem Agni desponsationem viri sibi abstraxit. VERSE Nam iste castissimus et aureus exercitus in virgineo crine mare transivit. O quis umquam talia audivit? REPETENDA Et etiam propter amplexionem Agni desponsationem viri sibi abstraxit. DOXOLOGY Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui sancto. REPETENDA Et etiam propter amplexionem Agni desponsationem viri sibi abstraxit.

English translation RESPOND Give praise to the Holy Spirit who put it into Ursula’s young woman’s mind to gather together a clutch of young women like doves. Because of which she, like Abraham before, quit her homeland. REPETENDA And preferring the embrace of the Lamb she withheld herself from a pledge to a man. VERSE And in fact that army, golden, purest crossed the sea on a virgin’s tresses. Oh, who ever heard anything like it? REPETENDA And preferring the embrace of the Lamb she withheld herself from a pledge to a man. DOXOLOGY Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. REPETENDA And preferring the embrace of the Lamb she withheld herself from a pledge to a man. Translation by Hugh McElroy