M064 Memento salutis auctor

Standardised text incipit: 
Memento salutis auctor
Standardised composer: 
Compère, Loyset
Attribution notes: 
"Loyset" (I-Mfd 1, index; as part of C17)
In cycle(s): 
C17 Hodie nobis de virgine
Reference source: 
I-Mfd 1, ff. 176v-177r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 
 
Length: 
40
Signature: 
b
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Music incipit: 
.......g
.gggbcdg
...bgbcd
gggbcded
Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Modern editions: 
CMM 15.2; AMMM 13, 63-65
Discography: 

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Further notes: 

Text details

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Jesus
About Christmas
Standardised text incipit: 
Memento salutis auctor
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts and observances
Christmas
Full text: 

Memento, salutis auctor, 
Quod nostri quondam corporis
Ex illibata virgine
Nascendo formam sumpseris.

Gloria tibi domine 
Qui natus es de virgine
Cum patre et sancto spiritu
In sempiterna saecula.

English translation: 

Remember, Creator of salvation, that you assumed the form of our body formerly by being born of a spotless virgin.

Glory to you, Lord, who are born of the Virgin, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, for ever eternal ages.

 

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Hymn Memento salutis auctor, for the Little Office of the BVM, st. 1 and 3 (note that the first st. of this hymn is in turn borrowed and sligthly altered from st. 3 of the Christmas Hymn Christe redemptor omnium, Cantus ID 008277)

T064 Memento salutis auctor

Music incipit (MEI): 
File M064MementoSalutisAuctor.xml

Sources with this motet

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd 1
176v-177r 		Memento salutis auctor
ID: M064 		Loyset (index; as part of C17)
Compère, Loyset 		post eleuationem C17 Hodie nobis de virgine
T064 Memento salutis auctor