Il coro di San Domenico in Bologna

TitleIl coro di San Domenico in Bologna
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1969
AuthorsAlce, Venturino
EditorRenzi, Renzo
PublisherL. Parma
CityBologna
Call Number730.945
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CiteKey: 
ALCE 1969
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To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Virgo praecellens
Full text: 

Virgo praecellens, deitatis mater, 
Nobis in terris hodie concedas 
Ut tibi puri resonemus omnes: 
Ave Maria.

 

English translation: 

O excellent virgin, mother of deity, do allow us on earth today that we all pure say aloud for you: Hail Mary.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

No direct correspondence in a standard ref work could be found.

Related texts in other sources: 

Compare the original poem on which the contrafactum is based (Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Metrum saphicum adonium de nativitate Domini, in Epigrammata), st. 1:
Rector astrorum deus et superne
Molis, in terris hodie videri
Passus, ut culpas veteris parentis
Demere posses,

A sixteenth-century tarsia in the choir of the church of San Domenico in Bologna shows a book with this stanza inscribed (provided with music notation), between musical instruments (see ALCE 1969, 331)
deitatis] dei mitis

Further notes: 

This text observes the form of the Sapphic stanza.
T192-195 are the continuation of this text (see the relevant records for a comparison of original and contrafacted stanzas).

T191 Virgo praecellens