T089 Imperatrix gloriosa

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Imperatrix gloriosa
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd 3, ff. 206v-207r, I-Mfd [4], ff. 12v-13r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Imperatrix gloriosa
Potens et imperiosa,
Iesu Christi generosa
Mater atque filia.

Radix Iesse spetiosa,
Virga florens et frondosa
Quam rigavit copiosa
Deitatis gratia.

Florem ergo genuisti
Ex quo fructum protulisti
Gabrieli cum fuisti
Paranympho credula.

 

English translation: 

Glorious empress, powerful and imperious, generous mother and daughter of Jesus Christ.

Splendid root of Jesse, flowering and leafy branch, which the abundant grace of God nourished.

Thus you bore the flower from which you brought forth the fruit, when you, trusting <him> were with Gabriel the bridesman.

 

Subject: 
BVM; Incarnation; Annunciation
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts and observances
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Sequence Imperatrix gloriosa, AH 54, No. 221, pp. 351-352, st. 1, 2, 4
ex quo fructum] fructum atque

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

I-Mfd 1, ff. 90v-93r, Imperatrix gloriosa : Florem ergo : Res miranda (F. Gaffurius) (= M016, T016)

Further notes: 

T090 is the (re-arranged) continuation of this text.