In 1582 Adam Berg of Munich published three volumes of Lasso’s motets, including the second set of Lectiones ex Propheta Iob for four voices and collections for five and six voices. Mottetta, sex vocum, typis nondum uspiam excusa was the third of these motet prints. Nineteen of the motets in this collections are first editions and thus reprinted here.

Marian antiphons are particularly well represented among the works, which include settings of "Ave Regina caelorum," "Salve Regina, mater miser...