Nesciens mater

General information

Antiphon during Christmastide

Notes on selected settings

• Anonymous, in Attaingnant's Fourth Book of Motets, 1534 AATB
• Jean Mouton SSABar.ATBarB
• Thomas Wright I TTBB

Settings by composers (automatically updated)

• Anonymous — Nesciens mater  Latin AATB
• Anonymous — Nesciens mater (Glogauer Liederbuch)  Latin STT
• Thomas Bytteryng — Nesciens mater, Old Hall 50  Latin ATB
• Giovanni Croce — Nesciens mater  Latin SATB.SATB
• Christian Erbach — Nesciens mater  Latin SATTB
• Antoine de Févin — Nesciens mater  Latin ATTB
• Jacob Handl — Nesciens mater  Latin SSATB
• Thomas Wright I — Nesciens mater  Latin TTBB
• Josquin des Prez — Nesciens mater  Latin STTBB
• Walter Lambe — Nesciens mater  Latin SATTB
• Ferdinand di Lasso — Nesciens mater  Latin SSATTB
• Antoine de Mornable — Nesciens mater  Latin SSATTB
• Jean Mouton — Nesciens mater  Latin SSAT.ATBB
• Jakob Reiner — Nesciens mater  Latin SSATTB
• Andreas de Silva — Nesciens mater  Latin STTB

Text and translations

Latin text Nesciens mater virgo virum, peperit sine dolore Salvatorem sæculorum, ipsum Regem Angelorum. Sola virgo lactabat ubere de cælo pleno. (some sources have ubera de cælo plena)

English translation The Virgin Mother, having known no man, bore, without pain, the Savior of the Ages, the very King of the Angels. The Virgin alone was nursing with a breast full from heaven.

Spanish translation La Virgen Madre, sin conocer varón, dio a luz sin dolor al Salvador del mundo. Al mismo Rey de los ángeles solo la Virgen amamantaba con sus pechos llenos de cielo. Translation by Alejandro Borrego Pérez