T004 Hortus conclusus

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Hortus conclusus
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd 1, ff. 68v-69r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Hortus conclusus, fons signatus, emissiones tuae paradisus, virgo dulcis o Maria, manus tuae stillaverunt mirram, facti sunt caeli melliflui dum domini manu fabricata est mater tanti dei.

English translation: 

A closed garden, a sealed fountain, your shoots are an orchard, sweet virgin o Mary, your hands dripped with myrrh, the skies are made dripping with honey when the mother of such God was made by the hand of the Lord.

Description: 

The first part of the text derives from Song of Songs 4:12-13 and 5:5.

Subject: 
BVM (Nativity/Conception)
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Immaculate Conception of the BVM (RR, post-Tridentine)
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

(Post-Tridentine) Roman offertory for the Immaculate Conception
est] es

Compare:
Roman Marian responsory, Cantus ID 601080
Hortus conclusus et fons signatus hiems transiit imber abiit et recessit jam veni sponsa de Libano veni balsamita veni coronaberis.

Roman responsory for Christmas, Cantus ID 006859
Hodie nobis de caelo pax vera descendit hodie per totum mundum melliflui facti sunt caeli.

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

PL-Kj Berlin MS Mus. 40098 (“Glogauer Liederbuch”), No. 35 Hortus conclusus es (anon., a 3); modern edn. in EdM 85, 57
Hortus conclusus es, Dei genitrix, hortus conclusus, fons signatus, surge propera, amica mea

Further notes: 

Motets with this text

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd 1
068v-069r 		Hortus conclusus
ID: M004 		F. Gaff(orus)
Gaffurius, Franchinus 		- C03 Hortus conclusus
T004 Hortus conclusus