Unica, gratifera
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. 149-151, #181, De beata Maria V.
1a. Unica, gratifera, Legis veteris umbrae fuga, Veritatis lucifera, Virgo florigera, Regali stirpe progenita Deo gratissima. | 1b. Ex Iacob surgit stella, Mundo dum oreris lucida, Florens virgula arida Aaron mystica, In cuius flore mirifice Fructus producitur. |
2a. Novum signum Laude dignum Imitatur mirabile, | 2b. lncarnari, Mundo dari Caelo misit verbum pater, |
2c. Dura implevit, Quod decrevit, Virum circumdans mulier. | |
3a. Florum flos, Virtutum dos, Virgo rosa Formosa, Tu vitis fructuosa, Absint per te dolosa, Absterge vitia. | 3b. Sola spes Tu nobis es, Doctrix morum Bonorum, Solamen peccatorum, Iuvamen miserorum, Pro nobis supplica. |
4a. Gaude, Mater mirabilis, Quae in scripturis Et figuris Fulges venerabilis, Spectabilis. | 4b. Rubus ardens non uritur, Dum impraegnatur, Fecundatur Parens viri nescia, Virgo pia. |
5a. De monte sine manibus Lapis mire praescinditur, Nam de fiscella A puella Moyses educitur. Vitae datur. | 5b. Lignum aquis immergitur, Marath dulcor infunditur, Nam servans urna Nos diurna Pane vitae praepara, Salvifica. |
6a. Terrarum Nostrarum Fons rigans superficies, Ex te nostrae salutis spes; Velut de pratis Voluptatis Fluvius egreditur, Fons laeditur. | 6b. Servorum Tuorum Preces benigne suscipe, Mater misericordiae, Placaus iratum Redde gratum Nostrum ministerium Deificum. |
7a. Tu veri Salomonis Eburneis [in] thronis Apta coronis Hanc plebeculam, | 7b. Porta Ezechielis, Tu lacus Danielis, Casta, fidelis, Tu mundi domina. |
8a. Implorat, qui cognoscit Se reum, et deposcit Per te sublimari | 8b. Ab imis ad suprema, Caeleste diadema Ora nobis dari. |
9a. Cum digne de te fari, Te venerari Non valeo, | 9b. Respice affectum, Cura defectum, Iuvamen praestito. |
10a. Resuscita depressum Et obtine ingressum Pacis infinitae, | 10b. Ab hostibus defende, Pium natum ostende Post hunc finem vitae. |
Dreves notes:
Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae 1582. fol. D 7 a. (Klemming II, 49 ff. als “Hymnus”.) — Auf Christus umgeändertes Marienlied. — 3, 3 Christe rosa. — 3b, 3 Doctor morum. — 4a, 1 Gaude Christe mirabilis. — 6b, 4 Pater misericordiae. — 7 b, 3 Caste. — 7 b. 4 domine gegen den Reim. — 10 b, 1 und 2 umgestellt. — 10 b, 2 Pium patrem ostende.
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).
