Ab oriente

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Jennifer Bastable — Ab Oriente  Latin SSATB
• Jacob Handl — Ab Oriente venerunt Magi  Latin SATB
• Bartolomeo Lombardo — Ab oriente venerunt magi  Latin 
• Johannes Nucius — Ab oriente venerunt magi  Latin SAATB,SATTB
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Ab oriente venerunt magi  Latin SATTB
• Hieronymus Praetorius — Ab oriente venerunt magi  Latin 
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck — Ab oriente  Latin SSATB
• Friedrich Weissensee — Ab oriente venerunt magi  Latin SSATTB

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, myrrham sepulturae 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 the true God, Myrrh for his sepulchre. Alleluia.