M027 Haec est sedes gratiae

Standardised text incipit: 
Haec est sedes gratiae
Standardised composer: 
Reference source: 
I-Mfd 1, ff. 111v-112r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 

Length: 
40
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c3c3c4
Final: 
C
Music incipit: 
ccdefedc
cdefgfed
..ccdefe
..cdefgf
Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 
Modern editions: 
GASSER 2001, 560-563; MM 1, 66-69
Discography: 
Further notes: 

Text details

Standardised text incipit: 
Haec est sedes gratiae
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts
Full text: 

Haec est sedes gratiae,
Sedes pudicitiae,
Sedes summi dei.

In hac sede residet
Dominus qui praesidet
Universae rei.

Sicut vellus maduit
De caelesti rore,
Sic venter intumuit
Servato pudore.

Nec vellus corrumpitur
Imbre pluviali,
Nec pudor amittitur
In conceptu tali.

English translation: 

This is the place of mercy, the place of virtue, the place of the highest God.

In this place lays the Lord, who looks over all things.

Like the fleece dripped with the celestial moisture, so the womb swelled beholding its chastity.

And just like the fleece isn't ruined by the rain, also chastity isn't lost in such a birth.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Sequence de Beata Maria V., AH 54, No. 248, pp. 389-391, stanzas 5-8

Sedes pudicitiae] Domus pudicitiae

 

Further notes: 

Continuation of T026.

Music incipit (MEI): 

Sources with this motet

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd 1
111v-112r
Haec est sedes gratiae
ID: M027
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Anonymous
- C10 Ave mundi reparatrix
T027 Haec est sedes gratiae