Beata et Venerabilis Virgo: Music and Devotion in Renaissance Milan

TitleBeata et Venerabilis Virgo: Music and Devotion in Renaissance Milan
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsGasser, Nolan
EditorMcKee, Sally
Book TitleCrossing Boundaries: Issues of Cultural and Individual Identities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Pagination203-238
PublisherBrepols
CityTurnhout
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GASSER 1999
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Cycle details

Reference source: 
I-Mfd 3, ff. 162v-167r
Cycle rubric: 
-
Identified as a cycle based on: 
FINSCHER 1964, 90, n.10; GASSER 2001, 331; see also WARD 1986, 506
Number of voices: 
4
Signature: 
b
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Devotional / liturgical association: 
BVM
Modern editions: 
GASSER 2001, 564-584
Further notes: 

Compare the cognate cycle C22b Diffusa est gratia.

Content (motets): 
M079 M080 M081 M082 M083

C22a Beata et venerabilis virgo

Anonymous

Cycle details

Reference source: 
I-Mfd [4], ff. 90v-95r
Cycle rubric: 
-
Identified as a cycle based on: 
WARD 1986, 506; GASSER 2001, 332
Number of voices: 
4
Signature: 
b
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Devotional / liturgical association: 
BVM
Modern editions: 
GASSER 2001, 564-569; 574-584 (partial, first motet missing)
Further notes: 

Compare the cognate cycle C22a Beata et venerabilis virgo (and see WARD 1986, 506).

Content (motets): 
M113 M079 M080 M081 M083

C22b Diffusa est gratia

Anonymous

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
About Christmas
Standardised text incipit: 
Beata et venerabilis virgo : Caeli terraeque maris
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Octave of Christmas (RR)
St. Stephen (AR)
Full text: 

Beata et venerabilis virgo, quae sine tactu pudoris mater inventa es salvatoris. Iacebat in praesepio et fulgebat in caelo.

Caeli terraeque maris inferni creator, auctor perpetuus, dominus immensae maiestatis iacebat in praesepio et fulgebat in celo.

English translation: 

Blessed and venerable virgin, who without change in chastity, were found (to be) the mother of the Savior. He lay in the crib and shone in heaven.

The maker of heaven, earth, see and the nether world, the perpetual founder, the God of immense majesty lay in the crib and shone in heaven.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Beata ... salvatoris. Iacebat in praesepio et fulgebat in caelo = Responsory for the Octave of the Nativity of Christ, Cantus ID 006167

Caeli ... iacebat: see CRIT

 

Related texts in other sources: 

Ambrosian responsory for the feast day of St. Stephen, sung at matins, see PM 6, 75-76
es] est

T079 Beata et venerabilis virgo : Caeli terraeque maris

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
About Christmas
Standardised text incipit: 
Beatus ille venter
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Octave of Christmas (RR)
Full text: 

Beatus ille venter qui te portavit, Christe, et beata ubera, quae te lactaverunt, dominum et salvatorem mundi, qui pro salute generis humani carnem assumere dignatus es.

English translation: 

Blessed is that womb, which carried you, Christ, and blessed are the breasts that fed you, Lord and Saviour of the world, who for the salvation of humankind, deemed worthy of assuming a carnal body.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Beatus ... mundi = Antiphon for the octave of the Nativity of Christ, Cantus ID 001668 
Beatus ille venter] Beatus venter

T080 Beatus ille venter

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Magnificamus te dei genitrix
Liturgical/devotional association: 
St. Agatha (AR)
Full text: 

Magnificamus te dei genitrix, quia ex te natus est Christus, salvans omnes qui te glorificant, sancta domina dei genitrix, sanctificationes tuas transmitte nobis.

 

English translation: 

We praise you, mother of God, because from you Christ was born, and saved all those who praise you, holy mistress, mother of God, transfer your blessings to us.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

No direct correspondence in a standard ref work could be found.

Related texts in other sources: 

Ambrosian psallenda for the feast of St. Agatha, see PM 6, 150

T081 Magnificamus te dei genitrix

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Virgo verbum concepit
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts (Nativity; Annunciation) (AR)
Full text: 

Virgo verbum concepit, virgo permansit, virgo genuit regem omnium regum, virgo post partum quem genuit adoravit.

English translation: 

A virgin received the Word, she remained a virgin, as a virgin she gave birth to the king of all kings, a virgin after birth, she adored the one she gave birth to.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

No direct correspondence in a standard ref work could be found.

Related texts in other sources: 

Ambrosian sources:

psallenda in 2nd vespers for the Nativity of the BVM, see I-Md 2D-4-11, f. 84v;

psallenda for matins in Commune Sanctae Matronae, see I-Md 2D-4-11, f. 95r;

psallenda for the feast of Annunciation, see PM 6, 38

T082 Virgo verbum concepit

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Felix namque es sacra virgo Maria
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Nativity of the BVM (RR)
Full text: 

Felix namque es, sacra virgo Maria, et omni laude dignissima, quia ex te ortus est sol iustitiae, Christus deus noster. Sola cuius radiis tenebras repellis pectore nostro.

English translation: 

Happy indeed you are, holy virgin Mary, and exceedingly worthy of all praise, because from you arose the sun of justice, Christ our God. You alone can repulse the darkness from our hearts with your rays.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Felix ... noster = Responsory for the Nativity of the BVM, Cantus ID 006725

T083 Felix namque es sacra virgo Maria