Magi videntes stellam

General information

Magnificat antiphon at 1st Vespers on the feast of the Epiphany.

Settings by composers

Blasius Ammon SSATB or AATTB Agostino Agazzari TTT Alvise Balbi TTB Antonio Cifra BBB Jacobus Clemens non Papa SATB François Gallet AATTBB

Bartolomeo Lombardo SAATB and ATTBB Simone Molinaro SATTB Étienne Moulinié SATTB Leonhard Paminger SATTTB Tomás Luis de Victoria SATB or STTB (has some of the bracketed alternative text)

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Catuí Côrte-Real Suarez — Magi videntes stellam

Text and translations

Latin text Magi videntes[viderunt] stellam [qui] dixerunt ad invicem hoc signum magni regis est eamus et inquiramus [requiramus] eum et offeramus ei munera aurum thus et myrrham. [Alleluia]

Dutch translation Toen de wijzen de ster hadden gezien, zeiden zij, elk op zijn beurt: "Dit is het teken van een groot vorst. Laten wij hem gaan zoeken en hem geschenken aanbieden: goud, wierook en mirre."

English translation The magi, seeing [having seen] the star, said, each in turn: "This is the sign of a great king! Let us go and look for him and offer him gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh." [Alleluia]