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by Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179)

O virga ac diadema purpure regis
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  ENG
O virga ac diadema [purpure]1 regis,
[que]2 es in clausura tua sicut lorica.
Tu frondens floruisti in alia vicissitudine,
quam Adam omne genus humanum produceret.
Ave, ave, de tuo ventre alia vita processit,
[qua]2 Adam filios suos denudaverat.
[O flos, tu]3 non germinasti de rore
nec de guttis [pluvie]4
nec aer desuper te volavit,
sed divina claritas in nobilissima virga te produxit.
O virga, floriditatem tuam 
Deus in prima die [creature tue previderat]5.
Et [te]6 verbo suo auream materiam, o laudabilis virgo, fecit.
O quam magnum est in viribus suis latus viri,
de quo Deus formam mulieris produxit,
quam fecit speculum omnis ornamenti sui
et amplexionem omnis [creature sue]7.
Inde concinunt [celestia]8 organa,
et miratur omnis terra, o laudabilis Maria,
quia Deus te valde amavit.
O quam valde plangendum et lugendum est,
quod tristitia in crimine
per consilium serpentis in mulierem fluxit.
Nam ipsa mulier, quam Deum matrem omnium posuit,
viscera sua cum vulneribus [ignorantie]9 decerpsit,
et plenum dolorem generi suo protulit.
[Sed, o aurora,]10 de ventre tuo novus sol processit,
qui omnia crimina [Eve]11 abstersit
et maiorem benedictionem per te protulit,
quam Eva hominibus nocuisset.
Unde, o Salvatrix, quae novum lumen humano generi protulisti,
collige membra filii tui ad [celestem armoniam]12.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   M. von Kralik 

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1 Kralik: "purpurae"
2 Kralik: "quae"
3 Kralik: "O flos tu,"
4 Kralik: "pluviae"
5 Kralik: "creaturae tuae praeviderat"
6 Kralil: "de"
7 Kralik: "creaturae suae"
8 Kralik: "coelestia"
9 Kralik: "ignorantiae"
10 Kralik: "Sed aurora"
11 Kralik: "Evae"
12 Kralik: "coelestem harmoniam"

Text Authorship:

  • by Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179), no title

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Mathilde von Kralik (1857 - 1944), "Hymnus der heiligen Hildegardis" [ soprano, women's chorus, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2024-10-24
Line count: 32
Word count: 218

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