Full text: I-Mfd 1, ff. 135v-136r
Translation: Eva Ferro, after CMM 106.3 (Ruskin Watts)
Alma redemptoris mater, quae pervia caeli
Porta manes et stella maris, succurre cadenti
Surgere qui curat populo. Tu, quae genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum genitorem;
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.
Kind mother of the redeemer, you who remain as an open gate of heaven, and star of the sea;
Succor the people, falling though trying to rise. You who begot in miraculous manner your holy begetter;
Virgin before and after, accepting this Ave from Gabriel's mouth, have mercy of the sinners.
One of the four main Marian antiphons (sung at compline from the Saturday before Advent until the Purification of the BVM), AH 50, No. 244, pp. 317-318
See also Cantus ID 001356
| Source | Motet incipit | Attribution | Rubric | Cycle / Text |
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I-Mfd 1 135v-136r |
Alma redemptoris mater ID: M040 |
Gaspar (index; as part of C13a) Weerbeke, Gaspar van |
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C13a Quam pulchra es (8 motets) T040 Alma redemptoris mater |
