Psallat fidelis contio

Psallat fidelis contio

Source: Guido Maria Dreves and Clemens Blume, eds., Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, Vol. 45b. Cantiones et Motetten des Mittelalters (Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1904), pp. 148-9, #180, De beata Maria V.

1a. Psallat fidelis contio

Cum gaudio

Iubilando Mariae,

1b. Et praesentemus cantica

Organica

Sollennis melodiae.

2a. Quam sine labe criminis

Et salvo flore virginis

Matrem pater elegit,

2b. Per quam gustus exitii

Et perpetis exsilii

Ius pristinum infregit.

3a. Tu es pincerna veniae,

Dives in caritate,

Et fons misericordiae

Manans suavitate.

3b. Tu stella pudicitiae,

Tu vitae medicina,

Peccati telo sauciae

Munditiae cortina.

4a. O nobilis puerpera,

Mundi tu lavas scelera,

Hoc orbi perfecisti,

4b. Et mortalium generi

Clausisti portas inferi

Vectesque confregisti.

5a. Flos virginum,

Dux agminum

Caelestium,

Prae ceteris hominibus

Beata.

5b. Tu servulis

Periculis

Refugium,

Caelestibus agminibus

Praelata.

6a. O regina,

Sine spina

Tu rosa vernalis,

Dans odorem

Dulciorem

Paradisi malis,

Tu gemma principalis,

Signum dumi,

Virga fumi

Vigor aestivalis.

6b. Stella maris

Appellaris

Lapsis in sentinam,

Peccatorum

Naufragorum

Dirige carinam

Ad patriam divinam,

In qua domo

Nullus homo

Patitur ruinam.

7a. Maria, salus hominum,

Medicina criminum,

Te decet post Dominum

Laus, honor et potestas,

7b. Nam ex te manat gratia,

Pax, misericordia,

Fides, temperantia,

Lux, bonitas, maiestas.

8 a. Tu nati tui filia,

Supremi genitoris,

Continentis omnia

Nostrique creatoris,

Tu manna es saporis.

8b ........

9a. Area arida,

Quam supernus

humor irrigavit,

Vinea regia,

Rosa spinae nescia,

Quam Deus plantavit.

9b. Tu sine sereine

Nati Dei

mater exstitisti,

Caelicos aditus,

Vetitos introitus

Orbi reclusisti.

10a. Tu adulescentulis

Oleum effusum,

Salus in periculis,

Spes in offendiculis,

Ostium praeclusum.

10b. Tu nautae fluctivago

Sidus salutare,

Ancora tu naufrago,

Submersis in pelago

Nobis auxiliare.

11a. Tu principium

Nostrae salvationis,

Reduc devium

Ad thronum Salomonis.

11b. Flecte rigidum

Mundanis inhaerentem,

Fove frigidum

A crimine torpentem.

12a. Impetra divinitus

Laude te laudantibus

Et in te sperantibus

Vitam cum beatis,

12b. Ut sublatis penitus

Poenis infernalibus

Iungamur agminibus

Deo soeiatis.

13. O mater pietatis.

Dreves notes:

Piae Cantiones 1582 fol. E 1b. (Klemning II, 41 als “Hymnus".) — Dies Lied ist ein in don Piae Cantiones oberflächlich und ungeschickt umgeändertes Marienlied und hier hergestellt. Doch bleibt die Herstellung in Str. 2 und 4 fragwürdig, da nicht durchsichtlich, wie weit die Retouche gegangen. — 1a, 3 Carmen nato Mariae. — 2a, 1 Quem. — 2a, 2 Ex pura carne virginis. — 2a, 3 Natum pater. — 2b, 1 quem. — 3a, 1 Hic est. — 4a, 1 O nate ex puerpera. — 5a, 1 Flos iuvenum; hier ist die Korrektur handgreiflich, weil sie den Reim virginum — agminum zerstört hat. — 5a, 5 Beate. — 5b, 1 In seriis, was den Reim zerstört.- 5b, 5 Praelate.- 6a, 1 Nate diva; hier ist wieder an der Zerstörung des Reims der Überarbeiter erkenntlich. — 6a, 8 bis 10 stehen irrtümlich (vgl. Reim und Sinn) zwischen 6b, 7 und 8. — 7a, 1 O Christe salus. — 8a, 1 Tu natus es ex. — 9b, 2 sq. Natus Dei patris. — 11a, 2 Verae salvationis. — 12a, 2 Adplaude laudantibus.

Sheet Music and Notes from Rev. George R. Woodward, ed., Piæ Cantiones. A Collection of Church & School Song, chiefly Ancient Swedish, originally Published in A. D. 1582 by Theodoric Petri of Nyland. (London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society, 1910), Carol #26, p. 38-45, Notes p. 240.

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Notes

See: The Christmas Songs in Woodward's Piæ Cantiones (1910)

See generally: Theodoric Petri, ed., Piæ Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scholasticae Veterum Episcoporum. (Gyphisuualdiæ: Augustinum Ferberum, 1582)

Some 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).

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