326. What fairer light is this than time itself doth own

Text Information
First Line: What fairer light is this than time itself doth own
Latin Title: Aurea luce et decore roseo
Author (attributed to): Elphis (d. 493)
Translator (sts. 1, 2, 5): Ronald Knox (1888-1957)
Translator (sts. 3, 4, 6): Thomas Isaac Ball (1838-1916)
Meter: 12 12. 12 12
Language: English
Publication Date: 1983
Topic: Sts. Peter and Paul
Copyright: Trans. 1, 2 and 5 © Search Press
Tune Information
Name: O MENTES PERFIDAS
Composer: Didrik Pedersen of Åbo
Harmonizer: Martin Shaw (1875-1958)
Meter: 12 12. 12 12
Key: d minor or modal
Source: Piae Cantiones,, Greifswald (1582); Harm.: Songs of Praise
Copyright: Harm. by permission of Oxford University Press



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