Beata nobis gaudia

Beata nobis gaudia. Latin, author unknown. This was a Pentecost hymn in the ninth century New Hymnal (see Medieval hymns and hymnals*), and the assignment to Pentecost continued to be common throughout the middle ages. It variously appears for Lauds, Matins, Vespers (first and/or second), and/or Compline. Additionally, and more rarely, it can be assigned to one or more ferias after Pentecost (for example: Monday and Wednesday after Pentecost in Worcester Cathedral, MS F160, from Worcester Cathedral, dated ca 1230; the Pentecost octave in the 12th-century Beneventan manuscript Benevento, Archivio Capitolare, V 20), or to the Pentecost vigil (as in Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS...