Unica, gratifera

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.

Editor's Note:

"Klemming II" refers to Gustaf Edvard Klemming, ed., Piæ Cantiones. S. Trinitatas; Jesus Christus; S. Spiritus; S. Maria. Holmiæ. 1886.

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 #68, pp. 161-166, Notes p. 259.

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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