Salue flos et decor ecclesiĉ
Also found as Salve flos et decor ecclesiae
Source: G. E. Klemming, ed., Piae Cantiones. S. Trinitas. Iesus Christus. S. Spiritus. S Maria. (1886), pp. 48-9. Primary source for many scholars, including Dreves, Woodward and others.
Salue flos et decor ecclesiĉ
Iesu Christe pie patris in palatio:
te fetentur sacrĉ prophetiĉ
lexque vitae tuĉ omni vitio;
virgo sine viro peperit te
et post virginem declarauit se,
frater Iesu Christe, qui cares initio.
Hic adest vbi periclitatur,
vere noncupatur
Portus nauigantium.
In ardore rubi prĉsignatur
et pie vocatur
pater desperantium.
Moysis hic scirpea fiscella,
prĉbens lapsis gratiarum mella,
lucens maris stella,
Via deuiantium,
subleuator pie miserorum
ad regnum clorum
duc nos post exilium.
Releuator pie peccatorum,
rector supernosum
da sanum consilium.
O dulcis, o clemens atque pie,
sis nobis director nostrĉ viĉ
et extremo die
fer nobis auxilium.
Note from Klemming:
"P. C. 2." This refers to Piae Cantiones (1582), p. 33.
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).
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 Piĉ 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).
