T090 Caeli quondam roraverunt

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Caeli quondam roraverunt
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd 3, ff. 205v-206r, I-Mfd [4], ff. 13v-14r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Caeli quondam roraverunt
Ex quo nubes concreverunt
Concretaeque stillaverunt
Virginis in uterum.

Ioseph iustus vir expavit
Ista dum consideravit
Sciens quod non irrigavit
Florescentem virgulam.

English translation: 

The skies once dripped and thus clouds condensed and solidified they trickled down in the womb of the Virgin.

Joseph, a just man, was scared, when he considered these things, knowing that he did not nourish the little blossoming branch.

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

Sequence Imperatrix gloriosa, AH 54, No. 221, pp. 351-352, st. 7 and 5
ex quo nubes] nubes ex quo
in uterum] in situlam

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

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

Further notes: 

Re-arranged continuation of T089.