T088 Magnum hereditatis mysterium

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
About Christmas
Standardised text incipit: 
Magnum hereditatis mysterium
Reference sources: 

Full text: I-Mfd 3, ff. 172v-173r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Magnum hereditatis mysterium: templum dei factus est uterus nesciens virum: non est pollutus ex ea carnem assumens. Omnes gentes venient dicentes: 
“Gloria tibi domine”.

English translation: 

The great mystery of (the holy) birth: the womb, that did not know man was made into a temple for God, and the one who received the human body from her was not polluted. All folks will come and sing: “Glory to you Lord”.

Subject: 
Christ; Incarnation; Nativity
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Octave of Christmas (RR)
St. Stephen (AR)
Little Office of the BVM (RR; during Christmastide)
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Antiphon for the Octave of Christmas (also used in the Little Office of the BVM during Christmastide), Cantus ID 003677

Related texts in other sources: 

Transitorium for the nativity of St. Stephen, see PM 6, 80-81

Literature: 
GASSER 2001
, 463-465
Further notes: 

LU lists the antiphons whose texts are used in T085-T088 to be sung in consecutive order at 2nd vespers on the feast of Circumcision.

Motets with this text

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd 3
172v-173r 		Magnum hereditatis mysterium
ID: M088 		-
Anonymous 		- C23 Ave regina caelorum mater
T088 Magnum hereditatis mysterium