Folio 24v

Commemorations of the saints, continued.

Saint Anne.

Hymn, Gaude felix Anna



A hymn commemorating St Anne (HL, 3, p 198), mother of the Virgin Mary, asking that she may intercede for us with her.


Burnet Psalt
er image. © Aberdeen University Library 1998

Gaude felix Anna
que concepisti\ prolem
qua erat <fuerat> paritura
mun\di salvatorem.

Gaude felix\ Anna
mater magne prolis
ex te\ processit rutilans
stella summi\ solis

Gaude felix Anna
genitrix Marie
<quae> virgo\ deum peperit
et mater est Messye.

Gaude felix Anna
que sola meruisti
mater esse virginis
matris\ Ihesu Christi.

Gaude felix Anna
gaude sine fine
pro\ nobis<me> preces porrige
celorum regine.

Versus.

Ora pro no\bis beata Anna.
Ut mundemur ab omnibus malis in hac\



Previous Next

Detail of the illumination

Return to contents


All images Copyright 1998
© Aberdeen University Library