Quĉ stella sole pulchrior
For Epiphany
Words: Charles Coffin, Paris Breviary (1676-1749), from the Paris Breviary, 1736
English Translations:
What
Star Is This, With Beams So Bright - Chandler
What Is That
Which Shines Afar - Williams
What
Beauteous Sun-surpassing Star - Campbell
Music: "Quae Stella," Michael Praetorius
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Source: Carolo Coffin, Hymni Sacri (Paris: Usuum Parisiensium, 1736), pp. 38-39.
Quĉ stella sole pulcrior
Coruscat ? hĉc Regis novi
Revelat ortus; hĉc Dei
Prĉsignat ad cunas iter.
Stat vatibus priscis sides:
En stella surgit ex Jacob;
Arrectus ad spectaculum
Eous orbis emicat.
Dum sidus admonet foris,
Lux fulget intus clarior;
Suadetque vi blandâ Magos
Signi datorem quĉrere.
Segnes amor nescit moras;
Labor, pericla nil movent:
Domum, propinquos, patriam,
Deo vocante, deserunt.
Micante dum nos allicis,
O Christe, stellâ gratiĉ;
Ne tarda clesti sinas
Obstare corda lumini.
Qui lumen est, sit laus Patri:
Qui se revelat Gentibus
Sit laus perennis Filio:
Par sit tibi laus, Spiritus.
Sheet Music from J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #80, p. 125.
"Melody first published in 1604.
Harmonized by M. Prätorius, 1604."
Additional translations include:
What Star Is This, With Beams So
Bright - Version 1
What Star Is This, With Beams So
Bright - Version 2
What Star Is This, With Beams So
Bright - Version 3
What Star Is This, With Beams So
Bright - Version 4
What Star Is
This, With Beams So Bright - Version 5
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