T193 Pacis in terris

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Pacis in terris
Reference sources: 

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

Full text: 

Pacis in terris chorus angelorum
Nuntiat tempus cui bona voluntas,
Laudibus quo te veneramur unam,
Sancta Maria.

English translation: 

The choir of the angels announces the time of peace on earth to the man of good will, in which time we venerate you alone with praises, holy 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
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. 5:
Pacis in terris chorus angelorum
Nunciat tempus, bona cui voluntas.
O puer, quantis venerare signis,
Dum venis ad nos.

Further notes: 

This text observes the form of the Sapphic stanza.
Continuation of T191-192, continued in T194-195 (see the relevant records for a comparison of original and contrafacted stanzas).