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DE BEATA MARIA V.
AVE MUNDI GLORIA
and
AB ARCE SIDEREA
MS: p. “Ave mundi gloria”: Fac. 326, 1. 3 — fac. 327, 1. 7. “Ab arce
siderea”: Fac. 327, 11. 8-12; ends with v. 3b gabriel[em]. A vertical
strip is cut off at the inner edge.
Text of “Ave mundi gloria” printed in AH 54, No. 254, of “Ab
arce siderea” in AH 8, No. 5.
Textual differences from AH are found only in “Ave mundi gloria”:
3b (5) gloriae] [ujenie; 7b (13) has the same form as the sources
called I and N in AH, 8a (14) turtur] nutrix, 8a (14) pudic-]
prudent-, 8b (15) mundi sublevatrix] uite rep[aratrix] (as in the
source called N in AH).
As a strip is missing along one edge, a little of every line is lost.
But we know the words from AH; and as the music is the same as
that of “Mane prima sabbati”, published by Moberg (No. 8), we can
fill in the gaps from these sources.
Moreover it happens that as far as our source extends the se-
quence “Ab arce” uses the same melody as “Ave mundi gloria” and
“Mane prima sabbati”. Hammerich publishes the music of “Ab arce”
throughout (pp. 27-8), and confirms the identity of the music of all
these three sequences.
The melody of the last (9th) verse of “Ave mundi gloria” (Nunc
et in perpetuum) and of “Ab arce” (Amen dicant omnia) is prac-
tically the same as that of the concluding clause (Amen dicant
omnia) of the French MS. of “Hodierne lux diei”, spoken of under
that heading (see also Introduction, p. XXIII).
Misset and Aubry publish as composed by Adam of St. Victor the
Dionysius-sequence “Gaude prole Grecia” with a melody mainly the
same as this one; indeed, great parts are identical. But “Gaude
prole” is somewhat longer, and as a result its music comprises some
verse melodies which do not appear in “Ave mundi” and “Ab arce”
(and “Mane prima”).
For “Ave mundi gloria” 10 MSS. and 8 printed missals are enum-
erated in AH. The country of origin was probably France. The text
of “Ab arce siderea” is printed in AH from 5 MSS., of which 4 are
East-European, and 1 is French.
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