Sancta Maria virgo virginum (Philippe Verdelot)

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• (Posted 2022-12-24)  CPDL #71994:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2022-12-24).   Score information: A4, 7 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Sancta Maria virgo virginum
Composer: Philippe Verdelot
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1529 in Motetz nouvellement composez (Attaingnant), no. 12
    2nd published: 1538 in Tertius liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces (Jacques Moderne), no. 25
    Manuscript 1563 in Cappella Sistina MS 38, no. 34
Description: Published by Attaingnant, 1528/29, and also extant in many other sources. The title and text incipit in Attaingnant's edition are 'Ave Maria virgo virginum', whereas other sources have Sancta Maria...

Original text and translations

Latin text

Sancta Maria virgo virginum,
Sanctae Trinitatis sacrarium,
angelorum specuscala sanctorum,
scala sanctorum omnium,
tu peccatorum refugium,
cerne pia meum periculum.

Suscipe clementissima meum suspirium
et da mihi tuum placatissimum filium.
Amen.