T192 Anna te mundo

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Anna te mundo
Reference sources: 

Full text: MotettiC, no. 21, ff. 018v (S), 19v (A), 16r (T), 17r (B); I-Rvat CS 15, ff. 232v-233r
Translation: Eva Ferro

Full text: 

Anna te mundo genuit beata
Tu bonam nobis peperisti pacem
Nos tibi fusi veniam rogamus,
Virgo Maria.

 

English translation: 

The blessed Ann gave birth to you for the world.
You brought forth the good peace for us, we, knelt down, beg you for forgiveness, virgin Mary.

Description: 

This text is a stanza from a Marian contrafactum of a Christmas hymn by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II).

Subject: 
BVM (Nativity)
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Correspondences in standard ref works: 

No direct correspondence in a standard ref work could be found.

Related texts in other sources: 

Compare the original poem on which the contrafactum is based (Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Metrum saphicum adonium de nativitate Domini, in Epigrammata), st. 2:
Virgo te mundo genuit beata,
Bos tibi laudes asinusque prebent,
Turba pastorum celebrat choreas
Gaudia fundens.

Further notes: 

This text observes the form of the Sapphic stanza.
Continuation of T191, continued in T193-195 (see the relevant records for a comparison of original and contrafacted stanzas).

Motets with this text

Displaying 1 - 4 of 4
Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
NL-SH 73
040v-041r 		Anna te mundo
ID: M192 		-
Anonymous 		In secundo nocturno C47b Virgo praecellens (4 motets)
T192 Anna te mundo
I-Mfd 3
200v(b)-201r 		Anna te mundo
ID: M192 		-
Anonymous 		- C47a Virgo praecellens (5 motets)
T192 Anna te mundo
I-Rvat CS 15
232v-233r 		Anna te mundo
ID: M192 		-
Anonymous 		- C47a Virgo praecellens (5 motets)
T192 Anna te mundo
MotettiC
S:018v(b) A:019v T:016r B:017r 		Anna te mundo
ID: M192 		-
Anonymous 		- C47a Virgo praecellens (5 motets)
T192 Anna te mundo