Ex te autem natus est hiesus cristus filius dei vivi. Benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedicta sit Anna mater tua ex qua sine macula et peccato processisti virgo Maria. The rubric reads: ‘Hec est vera oratio Sixti Pape quarti ad gloriosam Virginem Mariam Agnoscens eius mundam Concepcionem ad & propter quam tam magnas dedit indulgentias Videlicet Undecim Milia annorum earn devote dicenti & ex corde credenti Cui consonat Oratio Allexandri pape sexti.’ The prayer on St Anne is ‘Ave maria, gracia plena, dominus tecum. Google ScholarĢ2 Copie bullarum Concilij Basiliensis et Pape Sixti quarti in materiam Conceptions beatissime marie virginis Unacum duabus oratiunculis Sixti Pape quarti & Alexandri pape sexti de eadem Conceptione ad Mariam Virginem & sanctam Annam Pluribus indulgentijs dotatis. I owe thanks to Leofranc Holford-Strevens for reading and commenting on the draft with his usual erudition, and for help with the theological citations to Barbara Haggh for ongoing discussions on liturgical matters and to Jane Bernstein, Cathy Ann Elias, Murray Steib, Sean Gallagher and Bernadette Nelson for help in obtaining sources not available to me. Portions of this paper were read at the Twenty-Third Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, Southampton, 5–9 July 1996, and the Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Baltimore, 7–10 November 1996. It is thus most fitting that I return it to him in this much expanded form, though alas too late for him to see it. We puzzled over the meaning of ‘the sun’ in the rubric that accompanies this text, and when I was able to elucidate this enigmatic reference, Professor Snow, in an act of scholarly generosity for which I was most grateful, consented to let me use and develop his material. Professor Snow had found the text in a breviary of 1522 and collected references to a number of other motets with the same text. This early seventeenth-century manuscript contains an anonymous setting of the prayer considered in this article. Snow, Monuments of Renaissance Music, 9 (Chicago, 1996). Orders for Exportation punctually executed.I first became interested in motet settings of indulgenced prayers while reading the manuscript of Robert Snow's edition of Guatemala MS 4, then being prepared for the Monuments of Renaissance Music under my editorship, and subsequently published as A New-World Collection of Polyphony for Holy Week and the Salve Service: Guatemala City, Cathedral Archive, Music MS 4, ed. supplied with all Publications whatever, on the lowest Terms, and with the utmost Dispatch. Country Dealers, and all Public Schools, &c. Sael's future Catalogue, in either Town or Country, may depend on receiving it, by favouring him with their Address before the Publication. Those Gentlemen and Ladies who are desirous of G. Poole, Chester and of the principal Book sellers in every County Town in England. Richardson, at the Royal Exchange Messrs. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale of Mr. Sael, Bookseller, at the English Library, Newcastle Street, Strand, London, Who gives the full Value for Libraries and Parcels of Books, or Books exchanged. Which are now selling, for ready Money only, at the exceeding low Prices printed in the Catalogue. Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian, 14 vols. Ancient and Modern Universal History, 60 vols. Shakspeare, by Johnson, Stevens, Bell, Capel, and Malone, 51 vols. on vellum - 1498 Mountenay's Emblems, in seven languages. Pennant's Wales, London, and Scotland, 6 vols. Holy Bible, by Field, Wilson, Gill, Brown, Doway, Coll, &c. Dictionaries, by Chambers, Johnson, Ainsworth, Baretti, Motherby, Miller, &c. Dee, Bramhall, Saunders, Agrippa, Hopkins, &c. Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 3 vols. Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani, a Gibson, 2 tom. Among others equally valuable are Speculum Ecclesiae, Liber Edwardi Confessoris, MS. Sael's catalogue for 1792, consisting of twenty thousand volumes including two libraries lately purchased and many rare and curious books, collected from various Parts of the Kingdom with a choice Collection of the most esteemed modern Publications: The whole forming an extensive Variety of the best Authors in every Branch of Literature many of which are in elegant Bindings.
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