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Parata paradisi porta; Paradisi porta per evam

anonymous troped chant

Sources

London: Public Record Office LR 2/261, fol. recto (2/1).

Facsimiles

LEFFERTS, Peter M. and Roger BOWERS. 'London, Public Record Office, LR 2/261' [in] 'New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony', compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982), fig. 19.

Literature

1. LEFFERTS, Peter M. and Roger BOWERS. 'London, Public Record Office, LR 2/261' [in] 'New sources of English thirteenth- and fourteenth-century polyphony', compiled by P. Lefferts and M. Bent, Early Music History, 2 (1982), pp. 334-336.
2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 268-269.

Text

Parata paradisi porta prothoplausto patuit
que natu creatoris omnia creantis claruit
[(5 syllables) fra]grancie suavitatem prebuit
cum cuncta Deus in primordio creata statuit

Sed istius prothoprentis ob debitum
[(3 syllables)]mansit omnibus tanem
viventibus humanitus
quos vipera mordax pomi fructu vetiti detraxhit arte
[(4 syllables) in]hibito
en illius feroci contagio terrestris paradisi latens
liber hinc sopitaris introitus
sic exulis Eve [(2 syllables)]vitant in exilium de tanto
voluptatis libito

Sed misericordia regis altitonantis affuit Ade
no[(5 syllables)] propicia suavi fracia
cum de Iesse ramis folium vitale crescens et
florescens protulit mundo celitus
qu[(4 syllables)] presignatum vertitur in virgulam
florentem sanctitatis copia

Hec est sola davitica nimphula celicola servu[la]
[(4 syllables) ?ar]changeli repleta sacro flatu
nobis previa
de qua rex nascitur procedens homo sine viri
commercio re[?dimit (2 syllables)] nos penitus
taliter per virginem Mariam iterum fit patefacta
ianua. Alleluia.