O virga mediatrix (Hildegard von Bingen)

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  • (Posted 2025-03-07)  CPDL #84107:   
Editor: Allison Mondel (submitted 2025-03-07).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Riesencodex f. 473 verso.

General Information

Title: O virga mediatrix
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Lyricist: Hildegard von Bingen
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: unison
Genre: SacredUnknown

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: Alleluia-verse for the Virgin

External websites:

Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Alleluia!
O virga mediatrix,
sancta viscera tua
mortem superaverunt
et venter tuus
omnes creaturas illuminavit
in pulchro flore
de suavissima integritate
clausi pudoris tui orto.

English.png English translation

Alleluia!
O interceding bough,
Your holy organs
have conquered death
and your womb
has lit up all creation
as the lovely bloom that
germinated in the luscious untouched-ness
of your cloistered chastity.

Translation by Hugh McElroy