Pictagore per dogmata; O terra sancta; Rosa vernans
Four-voice anonymous motet
Sources
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musèe Condè 564, fol. 63v-64 (4/2).
Editions
1. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musèe Condè, 564 (olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a M. 5,24 (olim lat. 568), edited by Ursula Günther, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae
39, p. 33.
2. Motets of French Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1968. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century V, p. 128.
Literature
1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Ars Nova', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, I (1951): 702-729.
2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
3. NEWES, Virginia E.
'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.
Text
TRIPLUM
Pictagore per dogmata
fit virgo septenarius,
librat dies et climata,
quorum effectus varius,
et illa magna sidera:
Sic Iupiter primarius,
alter Mavortis opera
gessit, exinde tertius
nova dans mundo
federa,
surgit ut Phebi radius
post dulcis ut Citerea,
quam sequitur Cilenius,
Cinthia reddit trophea.
Mirari Neptunuum cogit
sorte sumpta cum Enea,
hic almus, qui modo cogit,
iam consummato spatio
capiet, - quicumque
legit
ut facta dicta ratio -
ubi caput fuit orbis.
Sedem firmabit Latio,
mentis ponet finem morbis,
nam tertia fert secula
auri, quae nectunt vincula.
MOTETUS
O terra sancta, suplica
summo pastori gentium
tuum
adi Gregorium
et fletus tales explica:
Nunc, sancte pater, aspicis,
ecce conculcor misera,
Christus hic lavit scelera
et fedor ab Arabicis.
Junge leones liliis
et rosas cum serpentibus;
indulge penitentibus.
Pacem dat
pater filiis,
crucem in classe Syria.
Agar cognoscat aquilas,
Farfar delphini pinulas
et arma mittat Stiria.