A page of gothic calligraphy, with alternating blue and red painted capital letters. The page has two columns, the left in Latin and the right in English. The first two lines of each column have musical notes.

This is the text and music of the medieval hymn β€œAve Maris Stella,” in Latin (left column) and a 19th-century English translation by the incomparable Edward Caswall (right). It’s based on the 15th-century manuscript BNF MS Lat 15181. You can compare it with the original here.

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