T085 O admirabile commercium

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
About Christmas
Standardised text incipit: 
O admirabile commercium
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd 3, ff. 168v-169r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

O admirabile commercium, creator generis humani, animatum corpus sumens de virgine nasci dignatus est et procedens homo sine semine largitus est nobis suam deitatem.

English translation: 

O admirable exchange: the creator of the humankind, taking on a living body deemed worthy to be born of a virgin, and, coming forth without seed as a man, gave us his deity.

Subject: 
Christ; Incarnation
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Octave of Christmas (RR)
Annunciation of the BVM (AR)
Little Office of the BVM (RR; during Christmastide)
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Antiphon at Lauds for the Octave of Christmas (also used in the Little Office of the BVM during Christmastide), Cantus ID 003985

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

I-Mfd 1, ff. 178v-179r, O admirabile commercium, (L. Compère) (= M066, T066)

I-Mfd [4], ff. 65v-66r, O admirabile commercium, (L. Compère) (= M101, T101)

Related texts in other sources: 

Psallenda for the feast of Annunciation, see PM 6, 45

Literature: 
SHERR 1997
, 196
GASSER 2001
, 463-465
Further notes: 

LU lists the antiphons whose texts are used in T085-T088 to be sung in consecutive order at 2nd vespers on the feast of Circumcision.