T138 Beata gens

Tags: 
Prose
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Beata gens
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd [4], ff. 122v-123r; MotettiLQ, ff. 29v (S), 93r (A), 60v (T), 125r (B)
Translation: CMM 106.3 (Ruskin Watts), rev. Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Beata gens cuius est dominus deus eorum populus quem elegit in hereditatem sibi. Verbo domini caeli firmati sunt et spiritu oris eius omnis virtus eorum.

 

English translation: 

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth their whole virtue.

Description: 

The text derives from Psalms 32:12 and 32:6.

Subject: 
The people of God; God as creator
Liturgical/devotional association: 
17th Sunday after Pentecost
Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Gradual for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, Cantus ID g01217

Related texts in other sources: 

Gradual of the votive mass De Spiritu Sancto, in Zarotto 1474, f. 166r

Literature: 
CMM 106.3
PAVANELLO 2009
, 151
Further notes: 

Motets with this text

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd [4]
122v-123r 		Beata gens
ID: M138 		-
Weerbeke, Gaspar van 		- C37a Spiritus domini replevit orbem (I-Mfd [4])
T138 Beata gens
MotettiLQ
S:029v(b) A:093r T:060v B:125r 		Beata gens
ID: M138 		Gaspar (index; as part of C37b)
Weerbeke, Gaspar van 		- C37b Spiritus domini replevit orbem (MotettiLQ)
T138 Beata gens