Montserrat Codex - Ad mortem festinamus (2011 instrumental version)

Описание: Ad mortem festinamus from the c1400 Spanish manuscript Llibre Vermell de Montserrat(Montserrat Codex). This instrumental version is performed here by Lyrebyrd Consort in 2011.
Evan Sanders (recorder)
Rebecca Witt (rebec)
Tim Muecke (violin)
Damien Day (viola)
James Cowling (bass viol)
Bernard Mageean (tambourine)
Recorded live in concert:
'A Mediæval Celebration'
Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2011
by Rosemary Beal, 5MBS
in the Barr Smith Library,
University of Adelaide
South Australia

Film by Anna Pope

Original text:
Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.
Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano, ut degentes seculi non mulcentur in vano. Iam est hora surgere a somno mortis pravo.
Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur. Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.

Translation of original text:
We fly at speed towards death, so let us have done with sinning.
My message is about contempt for the world,
so that our unworthy age will not be lost in vanity.
Now is the time to rise up and prepare for our long sleep in death.
Short life shortens and shortly ends.
Death is coming very quickly, but no-one thinks so.
Death destroys all and pities none.

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