Puer nobis nascitur

Puer nobis nascitur. Latin, 14th century. This is described in NOBC (1992) as ‘one of the most charming of all medieval cantiones’ (p. 67). It is found in a Gradual from the Augustinian College at Moosburg, Germany, dated 1355-60; a German text, ‘Uns ist geborn ein Kindelein’, also exists. In Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied I. 204-6, where it is dated ‘14th century’ there are five versions of the text. The Latin text is no 11 in Piae Cantiones (Greifswald, 1582), in the section ‘Cantiones de Nativitate Domini & Saluatoris nostri Iesu Christi’, where it has five stanzas. The 1910 edition of Piae Cantiones by George Ratcliffe Woodward* describes its provenance from other manuscripts...