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Medieval Music Database

Apta caro plumis ingenii; Flos virginum, decus et species; Alma redemptoris mater

anonymous motet.

Sources

Cambrai: Bibliothèque Municipale 1328, fol. 10v-11r FSL identified in Nadas;;
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 60v-61 (4/2) (with different Contratenor);
Durham: Cathedral Library C.I.20, fol. 338v-339 (3/2);
Florence: San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 61v,70;
Ivrea: Biblioteca Capitolare 115, fol. 5v-6 (4/2);
Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria a.M.5.24 (Latino 568; olim IV.D.5), fol. 18v-19 (4/2);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle), fol. 21v-22 (lost).

Facsimiles

1. Manuscripts of 14th Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison and Roger Wibberley, London: Stainer & Bell, 1982. Early English Church Music XXVI, plates 162-163 (DRc20).
2. LERCH, Irmgard. Fragmente aus Cambrai: Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion einer Handschrift mit spätmittelalterlicher Polyphonie, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1987. Göttinger Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Band II, 190-91.

Text Editions

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. II. Die Motette von Franko von Köln bis Philippe von Vitry', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VIII (1926), p. 254.
2. JOHNSON, Mildred. The 37 Motets of the Codex Ivrea. Vol. I: Commentary, Vol. II: Transcriptions, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University: 1955, Vol. II, p. 38.
3. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musée Condé, 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. 8.
4. Motets of French Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1968. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century V, p. 17.
5. LERCH, Irmgard. Fragmente aus Cambrai: Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion einer Handschrift mit spätmittelalterlicher Polyphonie, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1987. Göttinger Musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Band II, p. 109.

Literature

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925), p. 185.
2. CLERCX, Suzanne. 'Johannes Ciconia et la chronologie des manuscrits italiens, Mod. 568 et Lucca (Mn)', Les Colloques de Wégimont II, 1955, Paris: Société d'Edition "Les belles lettres", 1959, p. 113.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Das Ende der Ars Nova', Die Musikforschung, XVI (1963), p. 112.
4. GALLO, F. Alberto. Il Medioevo, Vol. II, Turin: Edizioni di Torino, 1977. [English translation as Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985], p. 37.
5. D'ACCONE, Frank. 'Una nuova fonte dell' "Ars nova" italiana: il codice di San Lorenzo, 2111', Studi Musicali, XIII (1984): 3-31.
6. REANEY, Gilbert. 'A consideration of the relative importance of words and music in composition from the 13th to the 15th century', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 192.
7. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 255.
8. NADAS, John. 'Editorial practices in early Quattrocento Florentine anthologies of secular polyphony', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento VI: Certaldo 1984, Certaldo: Centro di Studio L'ars nova italiana, 1992.

Text

TRIPLUM
Apta, caro, plumis ingenii
desidie barrum et studii
laborisque foco mollicies
et coniuga centro segnicies,
quo pigrescit, plumbum consumito,
nablum tange vocis plus solito,
duc pulmonis carbasis cardinem
lingue, Lini guttris arundinem,
tuam, Clio, lituram littere
quam conetur in preces fundere.
Iusto prius a motu pectoris,
omni scalpro poliat rethoris
crispatura Citei pectinis,
stilo laudes parentis virginis,
misereri qua sola trahitur
iustus Minos et qua Mors moritur.
Age caro, rumpe vivaria
lacrimarum, precum suspiria
tam potenti vome profunditus.
Suum tuus spiritum spiritus
aderigi poscat inpervia,
nous almae Tempe, celestia,
et Cerberus, quem fames torqueat,
te speratam perdere lugeat!
O propria bonitate, dea,
deo nupta, totius idea
formae, cuius non posse figere
gradus pudet naturam, misere:
Carni humane subveni propere.


MOTETUS
Flos virginum, decus et species,
adultere lucis conubio
non indiga vel auri radio,
si gemmarum vesperascit dies
te surgente.

Decor ipse, quo nichil gratius
et agrada gratie linea,
qua Stix atrum sol, squalor trabea,
limus ostrum, quo tinxit Tyrius,
fit candente.

Multa byssus virtutum, calculo
numerorum non certa, filia
nati, mater patris, plue, pia,
lacrimarum nimbos pro populo
te poescente


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003


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