M253 Crucifige clamitant

Standardised text incipit: 
Crucifige clamitant
Standardised composer: 
Attribution notes: 
NOBLITT 1963, 144-50 and 1968 proposed an attribution to Johannes Martini. The same scholar renounced the attribution in EdM 83, 364.
In cycle(s): 
Reference source: 
D-Mbs 3154, ff. 45v-46r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 
Length: 
67
Signature: 
bb
Clefs: 
c1c3c3f3
Final: 
C
Music incipit: 
cccagabc
...ededc
cccfegef
....ggcc
Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 
Modern editions: 
EdM 80-83; MCE 8.4
Discography: 
Further notes: 

The rubric “loco offertorii” is in a different hand in D-Mbs 3154 and seems a later addition.

Text details

Standardised text incipit: 
Crucifige clamitant
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Short Office of the Cross
Passion rituals and observances
Full text: 

Crucifige clamitant hora tertiarum,
<Illusus induitur veste purpurarum,>
Caput eius pungitur [civitatis suum] corona spinarum,
Crucem portat humeris ad locum poenarum.

English translation: 

“Crucify” they scream at the third hour. Laughed at, he is dressed with a red gown, his forehead is pierced with a crown of thorns, he carries a cross on his shoulders to the place of tortures.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Crucifige...poenarum = poem/rhymed prayer Patris sapientia, AH 30, No. 13, pp. 32-35, st. 3

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 50v-51r, Crucifige clamitant (L. Compère) (= M180, T180)

Further notes: 

Continuation of T249-251, continued (with interpolations) in T252 and T254-256.

Music incipit (MEI): 

Sources with this motet

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Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
D-Mbs 3154
045v-046r
Crucifige clamitant
ID: M253
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Anonymous
loco offertorii C56 Natus sapientia
T253 Crucifige clamitant