possibly by Jacopone da Todi (1230 - 1306)

Language: Latin 
Our translations:  DUT ENG FRE
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5. Quis est homo qui non fleret,
Matrem Christi si videret
in tanto supplicio?

6. Quis non posset contristari,
Christi Matrem contemplari
dolentem cum Filio?

7. Pro peccatis suæ gentis
vidit Iesum in tormentis
et flagellis subditum.

8. Vidit suum dulcem natum
moriendo desolatum,
dum emisit spiritum.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 5-8 of the original text.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Quartetto", op. 58 no. 2 (1876-1877), first performed 1880, stanzas 5-8, from oratorio Stabat Mater, no. 2

Text Authorship:

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lau Kanen) , "Stabat mater"
  • ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "The sorrowful mother", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La mère pleine de douleurs", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Karl Eitner) , "Stabat mater dolorosa"


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 60
Word count: 244