May the threats be silent already and the care of our king and people may be yours, so that they may always keep the chosen road, worthy Mary.

Full text: MotettiC, No. 21, ff. 19r (S), 20r (A), 16v (T), 17r-17v (B); I-Rvat CS 15, ff. 234v-235r
Translation: Eva Ferro
Iam minae ferri sileant et nostri
Sit tibi regis populique cura
Ut viam semper teneant electam,
Digna Maria.
May the threats be silent already and the care of our king and people may be yours, so that they may always keep the chosen road, worthy Mary.
This text is a stanza from a Marian contrafactum of a Christmas hymn by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II).
No direct correspondence in a standard ref work could be found.
Compare the original poem on which the contrafactum is based (Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Metrum saphicum adonium de nativitate Domini, in Epigrammata), st. 8 (and last):
Da bonam nobis, puer alme, pacem;
Sit tibi regis populique cura,
Ut viam semper teneant placentem
Rex tibi celi.
This text observes the form of the Sapphic stanza.
Continuation of T191-194 (see the relevant records for a comparison of original and contrafacted stanzas). In I-Mfd 3 "feri" instead of "ferri" and "sit tibi ducis" instead of "sit tibi regis".
Source | Motet incipit | Attribution | Rubric | Cycle / Text |
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NL-SH 73 042v-043r |
Iam minae ferri sileant ID: M195 |
- Anonymous |
In fine matutinarum |
C47b Virgo praecellens (4 motets) T195 Iam minae ferri sileant |
I-Mfd 3 202v-203r |
Iam minae ferri sileant ID: M195 |
- Anonymous |
- |
C47a Virgo praecellens (5 motets) T195 Iam minae ferri sileant |
I-Rvat CS 15 234v-235r |
Iam minae ferri sileant ID: M195 |
- Anonymous |
- |
C47a Virgo praecellens (5 motets) T195 Iam minae ferri sileant |
MotettiC S:019r(c) A:020r T:016v B:017r-017v |
Iam minae ferri sileant ID: M195 |
- Anonymous |
- |
C47a Virgo praecellens (5 motets) T195 Iam minae ferri sileant |