I saw her beautiful, flying high like a dove, like a little branch of smoke from the odours of myrrh and incense.
The virgin Mary is received into the celestial marital bed and in a throne of stars the king of kings sits.
Full text: I-Mfd [4], ff. 27v-28r
Translation: Eva Ferro
Vidi speciosam sicut columbam ascendentem sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus mirrae et thurris.
Maria virgo assumpta est ad aethereum thalamum in quo rex regum stellato sedet solio.
I saw her beautiful, flying high like a dove, like a little branch of smoke from the odours of myrrh and incense.
The virgin Mary is received into the celestial marital bed and in a throne of stars the king of kings sits.
Part of the text derives from Song of Songs 3:6.
Vidi ... ascendentem ≈ responsory for the Assumption of the BVM, Cantus ID 007878:
Vidi speciosam sicut columbam ascendentem desuper rivos aquarum cujus inaestimabilis odor erat nimis in vestimentis ejus et sicut dies verni circumdabant eam flores rosarum et lilia convallium.
sicut ... turris ≈ Song of Songs 3:6: quae est ista quae ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus murrae et turis et universi pulveris pigmentarii.
Maria ... solio = Antiphon for the Assumption of the BVM, Cantus ID 003707.
MotettiA, ff. 42v-43r, Vidi speciosam (G. van Weerbeke)
Vidi speciosam sicut columbam ascendentem super rivos aquarum cuius inestimabiis odor erat nimis in vestimenti eius circumdabant eam flores rosarum et lilia convallium
I-LUs MS 238 (“Mancini Codex or Lucca Codex”), f. 54r, Vidi speciosam (anon.)
Ambrosian responsory sung during Vespers on the Assumption of the BVM, see I-Md 2D-4-11, f. 82v.
Source | Motet incipit | Attribution | Rubric | Cycle / Text |
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I-Mfd [4] 027v-028r |
Vidi speciosam ID: M093 |
- [Gaffurius, Franchinus (?)] |
- |
C26 Assumpta est Maria + Missa T093 Vidi speciosam |