Choirbook 13_02

Choirbook 13_02

Beata quoque agmina

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Beata quoque agmina: sheets 6v–7r (numbered 5[v]–6[r])
Martyres Dei inclyti: sheets 7v–8r (numbered 6[v]–7[r])
Gentem auferte perfidam: sheets 8v–9r (numbered 7[v]–8[r])

4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus

C2, C4, C4, F4

Hymn Christe redemptor omnium, strophes 2, 4 and 6

First Vespers for the Feast of All Saints (1 November)
PD, fols 131v–132r: ‘In Festivitate Omnium Sanctorum. Ad Vesperas, et ad Nocturnum. Hymnus’.
Cattin: San Marco, vol. 2, p. 271

Hymn

The text of the hymn is attributed to Rabanus Maurus (776–856). The text transmitted in the choirbook predates the version corrected by Pope Urban VIII and published in the Breviarium Romanum of 1629.

Cattin: San Marco, vol. 2, p. 271
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1936 (2)

2
Beata quoque agmina,
Caelestium Spirituum,
Praeterita praesentia,
Futura mala pellite.

4
Martyres Dei incliti
Confessoresque lucidi,
Vestris orationibus
Nos ferte in caelestibus.

6
Gentem auferte perfidam
Credentium de finibus:
Ut Christo laudes debitas
Persolvamus alacriter.

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