Gaudia succumbunt lacrimis, risusque dolori cedit, dum bellis gratia pacis obit. Plangite, compassi cuncti, quos congrua pacis Solliciti inoesto pro grege causa movet…
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… Pro coelo certans coelum pro munere sumit, coelestesque lyras, angelicumque melos. Convivas reficit redolens rosa ccelica, florem flos pariens, solem stella, Maria Deum.
Johannis de Garlandia De triumphis ecclesiæ libri octo. Edited, from the unique manuscript in the British Museum, by Thomas Wright, London, Nichols for The Roxburghe Club, 1856, xii + 166 p. [GB][IA]
John of Garland's De triumphis Ecclesie. A new critical edition with introduction and translation by Martin Hall, Turnhout, Brepols (Studia artistarum, 44), 2019, 418 p. ISBN:9782503585116