“A Solis Ortus Cardine”. 12th-Century Chant from The Sarum Use.

“A Solis Ortus Cardine”.

12th-Century Chant from The Sarum Use, sung by Maddy Alabaster — former Christchurch Primary School pupil.

Available on YouTube

HERE

The Seventeenth Verse of “A Solis Ortus Cardine” 

sung as a Charm against Bleeding.

Prayerbook from Kingdom of Mercia, 

Late 8th-Century A.D. — Early-9th-Century A.D. 

Royal MS 8 A XX, British Library.

Source: Digitised manuscript, British Library.

Author: Unknown.

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“A Solis Ortus Cardine” (Latin: “From The Pivot Of the Sun’s Rising”) is a Hymn by Sedulius (☩ 450 A.D.), recounting Christ’s Life from His Birth to His Resurrection. 

Its twenty-three Verses each begin with a consecutive letter 

of the Latin alphabet, making the Poem an “Abecedarius”. 

It is one of the oldest parts of the Roman Catholic Liturgy, 

with two Hymns formed from the first seven Verses and four later Verses. 

There have been Monastic translations into Anglo-Saxon, 

and later translations into other languages, most notably 

into German Poetry, by Martin Luther during the Reformation, and the rendering into the Scottish Gaelic language by Fr. Allan MacDonald.[1][2]

The original Latin Hymn and Luther’s translation have been set for Chorus and Organ by many Composers including Dufay, di Lasso, Praetorius, Palestrina, Scheidt, de Grigny 

and Bach.