Quis numerare quaeat (Loyset Compère)

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• (Posted 2022-01-09)  CPDL #67470:       

Editor: Mats Lillhannus (submitted 2022-01-09).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 155 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original key and note values. Minimal ficta added.

• (Posted 2015-06-23)  CPDL #35877:      (XML)

Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2015-06-23).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Quis numerare quaeat
Composer: Loyset Compère
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript c.1497 in Cappella Sistina MS 15, no. 59
First published: 1502 in Motetti A (Ottaviano Petrucci), no. 29
Description: 

Original text and translations

Latin text

Quis numerare quæat bellorum sæva peracta,
dampna referta malis inreparabilibus?
Censeat ipse bonus perpessus talia,
sed qui illa sibi intulerit censeat ipse malus.
Dicat quisquæ quod hæc nobis Deus omnia fecit,
nostris peccatis premia digna febrens.

Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris,
quia non est alius qui pugnet pro nobis,
nisi tu, Deus noster.

Fundant precestali, exorent precibus omnes,
quæquæ es in terris natio funde preces ad Dominum,
ut data pax sit duratura per ævum,
ne modico læta tempore deinde gemas,
muneris et tanti ne si sis immemor ipse lore trahat,
quare pacis habena cadat.
Amen.