**Notes**



Te decet assidua Laus, regina pia; (*Hymnus 21*. AHMA 5, Dreves 1892, 74). <sup>24</sup> Gaude salutis trivium, Maria, spes humilium, tu porta patens veniae, levamen indulgentiae, non me pia despice. (*Hymnus 480. De b. Virgine. Oratio*. Mone 1854, 195). <sup>25</sup> Ave templum sanctum Dei, fons salutis, porta spei, ad te currunt omnes rei plena cum fiducia. (*Hymnus 484. De b. v. Maria*. Mone 1854, 201). <sup>26</sup> Salve coelitus creata, per quam salus est parata, porta coeli reserata, clausa peccatoribus. (*Hymnus 488. Salve regina*. Mone 1854, 205). <sup>27</sup> Felix coeli porta, illic nos adopta. (*Hymnus 497. Super eadem sequentia [Ave maris stella]*. Mone 1854, 220). <sup>28</sup> Ave maris stella, Dei mater alma Atque semper virgo, Felix coeli porta. (*Hymnus 29. Item alius de S. Maria*. AHMA 2, 39). <sup>29</sup> This expression alludes to the Jewish Judith, who decapitated the enemy Syrian general Holofernes, as an Old Testament prefiguration of the Virgin Mary, who—as promised by God in the Earthly Paradise after the Original Sin—would crush the head of the serpent (the demon) with her foot. <sup>30</sup> Sponsa Dei, stella maris, Porta coeli tu vocaris, Mundi salus, saevientis Caput caedens Holofernis. (*Hymnus 54. De immaculata conceptione BMV. In 1. Vesperis*. AHMA 4, 41). <sup>31</sup> Paradisi janua, Vitae spes et via, Tibi servit cernua Coeli hierarchia. Te decet assidua Laus, regina pia; (*Hymnus 21. Historia de Domina in sabbato. In 3. Nocturno. Responsoria*. AHMA 5, 74). <sup>32</sup> Mater, ope succurre celeri, Ne inferni tradamur carceri, Ut possimus consortes fieri Coeli, nobis januam aperi. (Udalricus Wessofontanus, *Hymnus 10. Oratio devota de B.M.V*. AHMA 6, 55). <sup>33</sup> Diram da judicis iram nos fugere, Cum nostram venerit vitam discutere, Velis insidias hostis tunc pellere, Et nobis januas coelorum pandere. (Udalricus Wessofontanus, *Hymnus 38. Abecedarius XIII*. AHMA 6, 132). <sup>34</sup> O felix tu coeli porta, Semper clausa, per quam orta Vera lux apparuit, 3b. Cujus lucis venustate Nostrae noctis obumbratae Caligo disparuit. (*Hymnus 80. In Nativitate BMV*. AHMA 10, 68).
