T242 Gaude sponsa cara dei

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Gaude sponsa cara dei
Reference sources: 

Full text: D-Mbs 3154, ff. 39v-40r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Gaude, sponsa cara dei
Nam ut lux clara diei
Solis datur lumine,
Sic tu facis orbem vere
Tuae pacis resplendere
Lucis plenitudine.

 

English translation: 

Rejoice, dear bride of God, because like the clear light of day is given by the brightness of the Sun, in the same way you truly make the Earth shine with the fullness of your peace´s light.

Subject: 
BVM; Joys of the BVM
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts and observances
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Sequence De 7 gaudiis caelestibus BMV, ascr. to Thomas Becket, AH 31, No. 189, pp. 198-199, st. 2
sponsa cara dei] cara sponsa dei

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, continued in T243-247.

Motets with this text

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
D-Mbs 3154
039v-040r 		Gaude sponsa cara dei
ID: M242 		-
Anonymous 		- C55 Gaude flore virginali
T242 Gaude sponsa cara dei