Salue flos et decor ecclesiæ

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 ecclesiæ
Iesu Christe pie patris in palatio:
te fetentur sacræ prophetiæ
lexque vitae tuæ 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 præsignatur
et pie vocatur
pater desperantium.
Moysis hic scirpea fiscella,
præbens lapsis gratiarum mella,
lucens maris stella,
Via deuiantium,
subleuator pie miserorum
ad regnum cœlorum
duc nos post exilium.
Releuator pie peccatorum,
rector supernosum
da sanum consilium.
O dulcis, o clemens atque pie,
sis nobis director nostræ viæ
et extremo die
fer nobis auxilium.

Note from Klemming:
"P. C. 2."  This refers to Piae Cantiones (1582), p. 33.

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

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 #24, pp. 36-37, Notes 239.

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

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 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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