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Medieval Music Database

Rex Karole Johannis genite; Leticie pacis concordie; Virgo prius ac posterius

motet by Philippe Royllart.

Sources

Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 65v-66 (4/2);
Florence: San Lorenzo, Archivio Capitolare 2211 [palimpsest], fol. 70v (Triplum only);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 7v (3/1);
Washington: Library of Congress, M 2.1.C 6a. 14, fol. 2v (Motetus fragment only).

Facsimiles

Bruxelles, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique. (A copy by Edmond de Coussemaker of 48 compositions from F-Sm 222), n2.

Text Editions

1. 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. 17.
2. Motets of French Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1968. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century V, p. 141.

Literature

1. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, pp. 54-56, 187-189.
2. LUDWIG, F. 'Die geistliche nichtliturgische, weltliche einstimmige und die mehrstimmige Musik des Mittelalters bis zum Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts', Handbuch der Musikgeschichte, edited by G. Adler, Vol. I, Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Verlag, 1924, pp. 274-275.
3. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
4. REANEY, Gilbert. 'Royllart, Philippus', The New Grove, XVI (1980): 285.
5. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.
6. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 183, 309-310.
7. 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

Rex Karole, Johannis genite
quondam regis Francorum strenui,
mortalibus pre cunctis inclite
claritate generis ardui,
facultate donandi comite,
Alexandri more prospicui
qui Darium cum multo milite
Porum quoque subdidit nutui,
sic hostili subducto stipite
pestifero gregis innocui
vorativa fauce satellite
inimica regni melliflui,
pestis huius mordaci fomite
invidia consumptiva sui,
pastor cui jam quasi praedite
suffragaris solercia tui.
Dolet Argus Yo perterrite
cum simili sono gemitui.
Custos iners gaudes sollicite,
curam gerens gregis precipui.
Nam gladio gentis ancipite
per te pulso remote domui
tue pax est nunc pacis reddite.
Sic itaque nostro auditui
das gaudium, securo tramite
paci dando plebem restitui,
quare potes vocis emerite
Salomonis nomine perfrui.
Miror regni paterno limite
succedentem te principatui.
Litterarum ditari divite
conjugio polles et instrui.
Novi falli vocis incognitae
aut in verbi posset ambigui.
Vive felix in aula celite,
comprehensor regni perpetui.


MOTETUS

Leticie, pacis, concordie
ac salutis humano generi
reparatrix, solem iusticie
claustris tui baiulans uteri,
effugatrix Evae tristicie,
testamento quam signat veteri
dulcis Hester, inventrix gracie,
Assueri sedatrix asperi,
revocatrix eius sentencie,
plebi Dei ducem te fieri
luget Aman. Princeps milicie
tiranni te traditur funeri
mesti luctus et ignominie.
Mardocheus desinit conqueri,
plebs Israhel datur leticie.
Fis genitrix tu regis superi.
Rogo supplex, ut regno Francie
nostro, per quod devote liberi
magis tibi serviunt hodie
quam faciunt, ut puto, ceteri,
pacem dones hostesque conteri,
ut serviant tibi liberius,
de fauce nos eripe Cerberi,
virgo prius ac posterius.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003


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