Ab Oriente venerunt Magi (Jacob Handl)

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• CPDL #05565:  PDF file available.

Editor: Insula Dulcamara Ensemble^{create page} (submitted 2003-08-26).   Score information: Unknown   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: written in original C clefs.

• CPDL #00176:    Finale 1998 

Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-06-16).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Ab Oriente Venerunt Magi
Composer: Jacob Handl

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:

Description: This text also appears in Sweelinck's Cantiones sacrae (1619)

External websites:

• Proske edition in Musica Divina, Vol II, Ser. I (1854) at ISMLP

Original 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, myrrhae sepulturi 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 a true God, Myrrh for his sepulchre.