This motet was edited according to D-Mbs 3154, ff. 39v–40r. The second line was emended; where D-Mbs 3154 transmits ‘cuius sedes est ad nutum’, the text has been corrected to ‘cuius sedens est ad nutum’. The textual tradition of the passage varies: some manuscripts transmit the reading ‘cuius parens est ad nutum’, while others transmit ‘cuius sedens est ad nutum’ (see AH 31, no. 189, p. 199). Even though the reading ‘sedes’ present in our motet is known from other sources,^[1] this reading can be easily explained as an error if one assumes that the scribe forgot the abbreviation sign for n / m, thus making ‘sedes’ out of the original ‘sedens’. We decided to emend for two reasons: first, the presence of the same expression ‘sedens est’ in the biblical text, namely in Col. 3: 1 (‘Igitur, si consurrexistis cum Christo: quæ sursum sunt quærite, ubi Christus est in dextera Dei sedens’) and secondly with regard to the meaning. We chose to translate the verses ‘Gaude, splendens vas virtutum, / Cuius sedens  est ad nutum / Tota caeli curia’ with ‘Rejoice, radiant vessel of virtues, at whose will the whole celestial court sits down’.

In the last verse the verb ‘veneratur’ could be emended in venerans if one considers ‘tota caeli curia’ only as the subject of the first sentence, building a unity with ‘sedens est’. However, since in the textual tradition the reading ‘dignatur’, which is grammatically correct if related to ‘tota caeli curia’, is frequently to be found and can point to regional usages, it has been maintained, despite the metrical irregularity occasioned by this verbal form.

Furthermore, the word Iesus presents the alternative spelling ‘Ihesu’, typical of medieval Latin.

^[1] See for instance, the fifteenth-century manuscript known as ‘Burnet Psalter’, at f. 113r, accessible online at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/burnet-psalter/index.html.