Stabat virgo mater Christi (John Browne)

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• (Posted 2025-05-02)  CPDL #84725:       

Editor: Bert Schreuder (submitted 2025-05-02).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 329 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from the Eton Choirbook. Note values halved, original pitch.

Original clefs: C3, C3, C4, C5. Further notes at the end of the pdf.

General Information

Title: Stabat virgo mater Christi
Composer: John Browne
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: AATB
Genre: Sacred, Evening Canticles

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1500
Description: 

External websites:

• https://imslp.org/wiki/Eton_Choirbook_(Various) part 6, starting on page 7.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Stabat virgo, mater Christi, iuxta crucem, modo tristi,
Filium dum inspicit.
Gemit, plangit mater pia, quis laetetur, dum Sophia
Pendens matrem viderit?
Quantum tristis esset illa gens Hebrea nunc favilla,
Quae Christum necaverat.
Pro te orat, pro te plorat, gentem solum is decorat,
Vos ambodum fecerat.
Quis fatetur gentem gratam, creatori tam amatam,
Nec amantem mutuo?
O crudelis, cur laetaris, quantas poenas patiaris,
Comprende iam animo.
Vide sole obscuratum, cor cum eius perforatum
Fuerat atrociter.
Vide tute terrae motum, quod humatis erat notum
Visis mirabiliter.
Vide gentes late tuas, hoc in mundo tam prostratas;
Credas iam humaniter.

Stabas mater iniucunda, cernens illa tremebunda
Judeorum scelera.
Is quid egit mihi natus? Num te fecit iam humatus?
Cogitas tum misera.
O, pallorem cum vidisti, tu Maria, vultu Christi
E dolore nescia,
Ubi stares, quem orares, mori secum plus optares,
Quam pati tam horrida.
Fides tamen in te mansit, surrecturum qui tum transit,
Tartaraque visere
Sacramente observasti. Da nos sequi quem portasti
Mundum hunc redimere. Amen.