by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Sibylla Cumana
Language: Latin
Iam mea certa manent et vera novissima verba. Ultima venturi, quod erant oracula regis, Qui toti veniens mundo cum pace placebit, Ut voluit nostra vestitus carne decenter, In cunctis humilis. Castam pro matre puellam deliget. Haec alias forma praecesserit omnes.
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, from a medieval compilation of Jewish, Christian and pagan sources. [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594), "Sibylla Cumana", published 1578, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum, no. 7. [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , title unknown, copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Sibylle de Cumes", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "The Cumaean Oracle", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 40