Angelus Emittitur

Translation: Gabriel's Message Does Away, John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore, eds., Carols for Christmas-tide (London: Novello, 1853), from Piae Cantiones, 1582.

Source: Guido Maria Dreves and Clemens Blume, eds., Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, Vol. 45b. Cantiones et Motetten des Mittelalters. (Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1904).

1.Angelus emittitur,
Ave dulce promitur,
Semen Dei seritur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

2. Vim natura patitur,
Filius concipitur,
Virgo non corrumpitur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

3. Grex in nocte pascitur,
Caeli lumen funditur,
Laus in altis canitur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

4. Gaudium praedicitur,
Pax quoque promittitur,
Bonis taren traditur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

5. Novum sidus oritur,
Mortis umbra tollitur,
Mundi salus gignitur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

6. Diligendus proditur,
Nil culpandus moritur,
Non vincendus capitur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

7. Crico vota figitur,
Infernus destruitur,
Captivitas tollitur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

8. Adam nexu solvitur,
Mors orco deprimitur,
Caput hostis teritur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

9. Argumentis igitur
In his Christus sistitur,
Morte sic excluditur;
Igitur 
Porta caeli panditur.

Sheet music from George Ratcliffe Woodward, Piae Cantiones: A Collection of Church & School Song, chiefly Ancient Swedish, originally published in A.D. 1582 by Theodoric Petri of Hyland. (London: Chiswick Press for the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society, 1910).

Note:

Dreves, #170, cites “Piae Cantiones fol. A 7 a. (Klemming II, 12 mit der irrigen Bezeichnung “Hymnus”.).”

Sources of Latin hymns found in Piae Cantiones:

• Guido Maria Dreves and Clemens Blume, eds., Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, Vol. 1.  Cantiones Bohemicae. (Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1886).

• Guido Maria Dreves and Clemens Blume, eds., Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, Vol. 45b. Cantiones et Motetten des Mittelalters. (Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1904).

• G. E. Klemming, ed., Piae Cantiones. S. Trinitas. Iesus Christus. S. Spiritus. S Maria. (1886). Primary source for many scholars, including Dreves, Woodward and others.

• George Ratcliffe Woodward, Piae Cantiones: A Collection of Church & School Song, chiefly Ancient Swedish, originally published in A.D. 1582 by Theodoric Petri of Hyland. (London: Chiswick Press for the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society, 1910).

• Sheet music for some hymns can be found in George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book, First & Second Series. Table Of Contents. (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., ca. 1902, 1912).

• Translations of some carols can be found in John Mason Neale and Thomas Helmore, eds., Carols for Christmas-tide (London: Novello, 1853). By the same authors was Carols for Easter-tide (1854).

• Translations and sheet music for some hymns can be found in Charles L. Hutchins, ed., Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916).

• Scans of individual pages from Piæ Cantiones (in the Adobe PDF format) can be downloaded from Facsimiles Piae Cantiones (http://www.spielleut.de/facs_piae_cantiones.htm; accessed June 15, 2009).