M244 Gaude nexu voluntatis

Standardised text incipit: 
Gaude nexu voluntatis
Standardised composer: 
Attribution notes: 
NOBLITT 1963, 144-50 and 1968 proposed an attribution to Johannes Martini. The same scholar renounced the attribution in EdM 83, 364.
Reference source: 
D-Mbs 3154, ff. 40v-41r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 

Length: 
62
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c3c3c4
Final: 
C
Music incipit: 
cbcdbced
gfgfdg.d
cdefdgfe
cbagcfgb
Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 
Modern editions: 
EdM 80-83, vol. 1, No. 31, 141-143; MCE 7.4
Discography: 
Further notes: 

Text details

Standardised text incipit: 
Gaude nexu voluntatis
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts and observances
Full text: 

Gaude nexu voluntatis
Et amplexu caritatis,
Iuncta sis altissimo,

Ut ad votum [esse] consequaris
Quidquid virgo postularis
A Iesu dulcissimo.

English translation: 

Rejoice in the connection of will and the embrace of love, after you have been united with the Highest, so that you may obtain at request from the most sweet Jesus whatever, virgin, you may be asked.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Sequence De 7 gaudiis caelestibus BMV, ascr. to Thomas Becket, AH 31, No. 189, pp. 198-199, st. 4
votum esse consequaris] votum consequaris
virgo] totum

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

I-Fn Panc. 27, No. 48, Gaude flore virginali (anon.) 

I-Mb Braidense AD.XIV.49, No. 7, f. 84v, Gaude flore virginali (anon.) 

I-TRbc MS 1563, No. 2, Gaude flore virginali (anon.) 

I-Vnm MS It. IX. 145, ff. 127-128, Gaude flore virginali (anon.) 

Further notes: 

Continuation of T241-243, continued in T245-247.

Music incipit (MEI): 

Sources with this motet

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
D-Mbs 3154
040v-041r
Gaude nexu voluntatis
ID: M244
-
Anonymous
loco offertorii C55 Gaude flore virginali
T244 Gaude nexu voluntatis