Valde honorandus est (Jacob Handl)

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• (Posted 2025-08-29)  CPDL #86570:     

Editor: Drew Sellis (submitted 2025-08-29).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 140 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Note values halved, written pitch retained.

General Information

Title: Valde honorandus est
Composer: Jacob Handl
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1590 in Opus musicum (Jacob Handl), Volume 4, no. 44
Description: Motet for St. John the Evangelist.

Original text and translations

Latin text Valde honorandus est beatus Joannes, qui supra pectus Domini in coena recubuit: cui Christus in cruce matrem virginem virgini commendavit.

English translation Greatly to be honoured is blessed John, who leaned on the breast of the Lord at the Last Supper: to whom Christ on the cross commended his mother, the virgin of virgins.