Consendit Salamon Ventrale Ferculum

from The Red Book of Ossory by Anakronos featuring Caitríona O'Leary

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music: Fenice Fu, Jacopo da Bologna, Italian, 14th century
Squarcialupi Codex, I-Fl 87, f. 16v-17

lyrics

Consendit Salamon ventrale ferculum
Nec pudiciciae soluit signaculum
Tactu femineo

Venter eburneus producit masculum
Per quem redimitur optatum seculum
Partu virgineo

Ardere cernitur ardenti radio
Rubus nec uritur ignis incendio
Visu Moysayco

Sic nec corumpitur suscepto filio
Virgo nec leditur in puerperio
Rore deifico

In ventre virginis cubat leunculus
Qui suis dentibus non est mordaculus
Rugitus tollitur

Iam enim fovens est agnus agniculus
Mordere renvens eius denticulus
Mamillis pascitur

O virgo regia o virgo nobilis
Quod deum concipis et nobis partiros
Divino munere

Tuis christicolis deposse miseris
Post vite tedia os frui superis
Eterno lumine

Amen

Solomon’s Palanquin was The Virgin’s Womb

Solomon boarded the palanquin that was the Virgin’s womb
The seal of her purity unbroken by any
Woman’s touch

The ivory womb brings forth the male child
By whom the chosen people are redeemed through the
Virgin birth

As Moses perceived,
Though its blaze burns brightly,
The briar is not burned by the fire’s flames

Thus is the Virgin neither corrupted by the Divine Dew
Upon receiving her son,
Nor hurt when bearing him

In the Virgin’s womb sleeps the little lion
Whose teeth do not nip
His roar is tamed

Indeed, now the little lamb is nestled,
His little tooth refuses to bite as he feeds
From her breasts

O royal virgin, o noble virgin,
Who conceives God and shares with us
The divine reward

Beseech for your wretched Christians
That after the sorrows of life we may delight
In the eternal light above

Amen

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from The Red Book of Ossory, released July 10, 2020
Anakronos

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Caitriona O'Leary

Caitríona is known for her performances of Early Music and Traditional Irish song. She has recorded over twenty critically acclaimed albums. The Wexford Carols with Tom Jones, Rosanne Cash, and Rhiannon Giddens, reached #1 on Billboard.

She has performed at Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, Halle Handel Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Utrecht Early Music Festival, etc.
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