The French and Italian interest in Lasso's motets in the mid-1560s was matched in Germany by the Nuremberg publisher Theodor Gerlach, the successor to Berg and Neuber, who had already issued many Lasso motets earlier in the decade (CM 2 and CM 3).

Gerlach's two-volume Selectissimae cantiones of 1568 was in effect the first collected edition of Lasso's motets, reprinting almost all the pieces previously published in France and Italy and adding twenty motets for from four to eight voices publis...