Ab oriente

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Jacobus Clemens non Papa SATTB
Jacob Handl SATB
Bartolomeo Lombardo SATTB and AATTB
Johannes Nucius SAATB and SATTB
Hieronymus Praetorius SATTB and AATTB
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck SATTB and ATTBB
Friedrich Weissensee SSATTB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

Jennifer Bastable — Ab Oriente

Text and translations

Latin text

Ab Oriente venerunt Magi
in Bethlehem adorare Dominum
et apertis thesauris suis,
pretiosa munera obtulerunt:
Aurum sicut Regi magno,
thus sicut Deo vero,
myrrham sepulturae eius.
Alleluia.

English translation

Out of the east came the wise men,
unto Bethlehem to worship the Lord;
and opening their treasury
they offered precious gifts:
Gold, as for a great king,
Incense, as for the true God,
Myrrh for his sepulchre.
Alleluia.