Full text: I-Mfd 1, ff. 139v-140r, I-Mfd 2, ff. 50v-51r
Translation: CMM 106.3 (Ruskin Watts), rev. Eva Ferro
O Maria clausus hortus,
Naufragantis mundi portus,
Placa nobis qui te fecit,
Matrem sibi quam elegit.
Audi virgo glorifica,
Post filium spes unica.
Clemens et imperiosa,
Nostra dele maculosa.
Accepta nostra cantica,
Impetra pulchra caelica.
Ave decus virgineum,
Ave iubar aethereum,
Adsit praesens solemnitas
Nobis perpes iocunditas.
Tua namque veneratio
Summis est gratulatio.
O Mary closed garden, harbour for the shipwrecked world; Reconcile us with who formed you, him who chose you as his mother.
Hear us, virgin glorious, only hope after your son. Gracious and imperious, delete our sinful affairs. Accept our songs, obtain our pardon, celestial, beauteous.
Hail, virginal beauty, hail celestial light, may this thanksgiving feast be an enjoyment for us.
Your veneration is namely a compliment for the highest things.
From a (widespread) rhymed office for the Conception of the BVM, AH 5, No. 12, pp. 47-50, (see also MONE 2, No. 326, pp. 8-15)
O Maria ... elegit = 3rd antiphon at First Vespers
Audi ... caelica = Antiphon for the 3rd Nocturn at Matins (in monastic breviaries only)
Accepta] Acceptans
pulchra] fulcra
Ave ... gratulatio = Magnificat antiphon at First Vespers
Adsit ] Nobis
Nobis] Da sit
veneratio] conceptio
Even though the text derives from a rhymed office for the Conception of the BVM, all references to that particular feast are avoided or omitted, so the text seems to be a multi-purpose Marian prayer. According to GASSER 2001, 290, moreover, the first two stanzas also appear in certain fifteenth-century books of hours as antiphon for Prime and Sext in the Office of the BVM (with reference to the Horae of Catherine of Cleves, c. 1470).
| Source | Motet incipit | Attribution | Rubric | Cycle / Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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I-Mfd 2 050v-051r |
O Maria clausus hortus ID: M044 |
- Weerbeke, Gaspar van |
- |
C13b Quam pulchra es (3 motets) T044 O Maria clausus hortus |
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I-Mfd 1 139v-140r |
O Maria clausus hortus ID: M044 |
Gaspar (index; as part of C13a) Weerbeke, Gaspar van |
- |
C13a Quam pulchra es (8 motets) T044 O Maria clausus hortus |
